Religion and Society at the Dawn of Modern Europe: Christianity Transformed, 1750-1850
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This book reveals how, in confrontation with secularity, various new forms of Christianity evolved during the time of Europe's crisis of modernisation.
Rudolf Schlögl provides a comprehensive overview of the development of religious institutions and piety in Protestant and Catholic Europe between 1750 and 1850; at the same time, he offers a detailed exposition of contemporary philosophical, theological and socio-theoretical thought on the nature and function of religion. This allows us to understand the importance of religion in the self-defining of European society during a period of great change and upheaval.
Religion and Society at the Dawn of Modern Europe is a pivotal work – translated into English here for the first time – for all scholars and students of European society in the 18th and 19th centuries.
An overview of the changes in and social relevance of Christianity in Europe at the beginning of the modern era.
Surveys the subject of Christian fundamentalism vs secularism across Europe from 1750 to 1850
Draws on material taken from a range of spheres, including the philosophical, theological and socio-theoretical
A critical work of German scholarship translated into English here for the very first time
Preface
Introduction: Christianity as a System Within Society
1. Christianity in the Ancien Régime
2. Christianity and Civil Society
3. Christianity in Modern Society
4. Religion as Culture
Conclusion: Secularization - A Valid Concept?
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
A rich, sophisticated, and remarkably insightful description of the changing role of religion in the transition to modernity. Rudolf Schlögl demonstrates here once again that he is one of the most important historians of Europe working in the world today.
This is an excellent book, well-researched, rich in insights, balanced in its judgements, and wide-ranging in its coverage of developments within a number of national contexts.
- Title: Religion and Society at the Dawn of Modern Europe: Christianity Transformed, 1750-1850
- Authors: Brian Cowan, Beat Kümin, Rudolf Schlögl, Helen Imhoff
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2020
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781350099593, 9781350246775, 1350246778, 1350099597
- Resource ID: LLS:9781350099593
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-04-09T03:32:00Z
Rudolf Schlögl is Chair of Modern History (Early Modern History) at the University of Konstanz, Germany. He is the author of several books in German on religion and early modern Europe.