The Gods of the City: Protestantism and Religious Culture in Strasbourg, 1870-1914 Hardcover - 2008
by Anthony Steinhoff
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Recent scholarship has criticized the assumption that European modernity was inherently secular. Yet, we remain poorly informed about religion's fate in the nineteenth-century big city, the very crucible of the modern condition. Drawing on extensive archival research and investigations into Protestant ecclesiastical organization, church-state relations, liturgy, pastoral care, associational life, and interconfessional relations, this study of Strasbourg following Germany's annexation of Alsace-Lorraine in 1871 shows how urbanization not only challenged the churches, but spurred them to develop new, forward-looking, indeed, urban understandings of religious community and piety. The work provides new insights into what it meant for Imperial Germany to identify itself as "Protestant" and it provocatively identifies the European big city as an agent for sacralization, and not just secularization.
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- Title The Gods of the City: Protestantism and Religious Culture in Strasbourg, 1870-1914
- Author Anthony Steinhoff
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 518
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Brill
- Date 2008-03
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated
- ISBN 9789004164055 / 9004164057
- Weight 2.2 lbs (1.00 kg)
- Dimensions 9.7 x 6.7 x 1.3 in (24.64 x 17.02 x 3.30 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: French
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008003228
- Dewey Decimal Code 280.409
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Citations
- Reference and Research Bk News, 05/01/2008, Page 34
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