Placeholder text

Go to cart

The Gods of the City

By Anthony Steinhoff

The Gods of the City Religion & Esotericism

The Gods of the City

0 - Default Title
Description
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.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
518
Release Date:
2008-03-15
Publication Date:
2008-02-28
Publisher:
Brill
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
9004164057
ISBN13:
9789004164055
Weight:
998 g
Height:
170 cm
Width:
246 cm
Thickness:
33 cm
Buy on Amazon
Currently sold out