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Red Secularism

Socialism and Secularist Culture in Germany 1890 to 1933

By: Todd H. Weir

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Red Secularism

Socialism and Secularist Culture in Germany 1890 to 1933

By: Todd H. Weir

Red Secularism is the first substantive investigation into one of the key sources of radicalism in modern German, the subculture that arose at the intersection of secularism and socialism in the late nineteenth-century. It explores the organizations that promoted their humanistic-monistic worldview through popular science and asks how this worldview shaped the biographies of ambitious self-educated workers and early feminists. Todd H. Weir shows how generations of secularist intellectuals staked out leading positions in the Social Democratic Party, but often lost them due to their penchant for dissent. Moving between local and national developments, this book examines the crucial role of red secularism in the political struggles over religion that rocked Germany and fed into the National Socialist dictatorship of 1933. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

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Secularism and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Germany

The Rise of the Fourth Confession

By: Todd H. Weir

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Secularism and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Germany

The Rise of the Fourth Confession

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This book explores the culture, politics, and ideas of the nineteenth-century German secularist movements of Free Religion, Freethought, Ethical Culture, and Monism. In it, Todd H. Weir argues that although secularists challenged church establishment and conservative orthodoxy, they were subjected to the forces of religious competition.

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The Rise of the Fourth Confession

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The Rise of the Fourth Confession

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Negotiating the boundaries of the secular and of the religious is a core aspect of modern experience. In mid-nineteenth-century Germany, secularism emerged to oppose church establishment, conservative orthodoxy, and national division between Catholics, Protestants, and Jews. Yet, as historian Todd H. Weir argues in this provocative book, early secularism was not the opposite of religion. It developed in the rationalist dissent of Free Religion and, even as secularism took more atheistic forms in Freethought and Monism, it was subject to the forces of the confessional system it sought to dismantle. Similar to its religious competitors, it elaborated a clear worldview, sustained social milieus, and was integrated into the political system. Secularism was, in many ways, Germany's fourth confession. While challenging assumptions about the causes and course of the Kulturkampf and modern antisemitism, this study casts new light on the history of popular science, radical politics, and social reform.

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Red Secularism

Socialism and Secularist Culture in Germany 1890 to 1933

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Socialism and Secularist Culture in Germany 1890 to 1933

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Illuminates the culture and worldview of socialist secularism and its impact on German history between the Kaiserreich and the Third Reich.

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