The gods of the city : : Protestantism and religious culture in Strasbourg, 1870-1914 / / by Anthony J. Steinhoff.

• Superior document: Studies in Central European histories, v. 43
• Author: Steinhoff, Anthony J.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Central European histories ; v. 43.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (534 p.)
• Notes: Based on the author's thesis--University of Chicago.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction /; Chapter One. From Grande Ville to Hauptstadt /; Chapter Two. Strasbourg metropolis /; Chapter Three. The Parish milieu /; Chapter Four. Contested visions: Church and state in the Reichsland /; Chapter Five. The worshipping community /; Chapter Six. Beyond the culture wars: Religious education in school and Parish /; Chapter Seven. Ministering to the city /; Chapter Eight. Urbanizing alsatian protestantism /; Conclusion /; Appendices /; Bibliography /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [445]-495) and index.
• ISBN: 1282397907; 9786612397905; 9047432444
• ISSN: 1547-1217
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Anthony J. Steinhoff.

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.