Secularism and religion in nineteenth-century Germany : the rise of the fourth confession /
Todd H. Weir, Queen's University Belfast.
- 1 online resource (xv, 304 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-292) and index.
Dissidence and confession, 1845 to 1847 -- Free religious worldview : from Christian rationalism to naturalistic monism -- The sociology of dissent : free religion and popular science -- Politics and free religion in the 1860s and 1870s -- Secularism in the Berlin Kulturkampf, 1869-1880 -- From worldview to ethics : secularism and the "Jewish question," 1878-1892 -- Secularism in Wilhelmine Germany.
This book explores the culture, politics, and ideas of the nineteenth-century German secularist movements of Free Religion, Freethought, Ethical Culture, and Monism.