The Gods of the City
Protestantism and Religious Culture in Strasbourg, 1870-1914
Biographical note
Anthony J. Steinhoff, Ph.D. in History, University of Chicago (1996), is Associate Professor of Modern European History at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He has published widely on European religious history, including articles in Geschichte und Gesellschaft and the Journal of Urban History.
Readership
All those interested in modern European religious history/history of Christianity, urban history, borderlands studies, nineteenth-century France and Germany, education, as well as academic libraries and graduate students.
Reviews
"Steinhoff has offered a lengthy analysis that reveals in its richness the complexities inherent in modernity...This study should help illuminate the contemporary view of the relation of religion to the secular sphere in western societies that are still ambivalent when it comes to the role of religion in the political life of states."
Donald J. Dietrich, Church History, 80: 3, 2008, 700-702
"äusserst materialreich....ein wirklich gewichtiges Buch."
Friedrich Wilhelm Graf, Neue Politische Literatur, 53, 2008, 493-494
"Ce n’est pas seulement une grande thèse d’histoire de l’Alsace, c’est une belle thèse d’histoire culturelle européenne, fondée, à la mode américaine, sur une étude de cas : l’étude de l’évolution du protestantisme strasbourgeois à la fin du XIXe et au début du XXe siècle. Elle se situe dans le sillage des études qui marquent le renouveau contemporain de l’histoire du fait religieux."
François Igersheim, Revue d'Alsace, 2010
"Steinhoff’s highly successful book remains a most thoughtful, clearly conceived, and well-organized study, one that deftly engages with and appropriately modifies the growing historiography on religion in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe.
Mark Edward Ruff, Journal of Modern History, Sept. 2010, vol. 82, no. 3, 748-750
Donald J. Dietrich, Church History, 80: 3, 2008, 700-702
"äusserst materialreich....ein wirklich gewichtiges Buch."
Friedrich Wilhelm Graf, Neue Politische Literatur, 53, 2008, 493-494
"Ce n’est pas seulement une grande thèse d’histoire de l’Alsace, c’est une belle thèse d’histoire culturelle européenne, fondée, à la mode américaine, sur une étude de cas : l’étude de l’évolution du protestantisme strasbourgeois à la fin du XIXe et au début du XXe siècle. Elle se situe dans le sillage des études qui marquent le renouveau contemporain de l’histoire du fait religieux."
François Igersheim, Revue d'Alsace, 2010
"Steinhoff’s highly successful book remains a most thoughtful, clearly conceived, and well-organized study, one that deftly engages with and appropriately modifies the growing historiography on religion in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe.
Mark Edward Ruff, Journal of Modern History, Sept. 2010, vol. 82, no. 3, 748-750
Table of contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Note on Translations and Citations
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. From Grande Ville to Hauptstadt
2. Strasbourg Metropolis
3. The Parish Milieu
4. Contested Visions: Church and State in the Reichsland
5. The Worshipping Community
6. Beyond the Culture Wars: Religious Education in School and Parish
7. Ministering to the City
8. Urbanizing Alsatian Protestantism
Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
Note on Translations and Citations
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. From Grande Ville to Hauptstadt
2. Strasbourg Metropolis
3. The Parish Milieu
4. Contested Visions: Church and State in the Reichsland
5. The Worshipping Community
6. Beyond the Culture Wars: Religious Education in School and Parish
7. Ministering to the City
8. Urbanizing Alsatian Protestantism
Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
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