Intimacy and Exclusion

Religious Politics in Pre-revolutionary Baden
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-4128-0702-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

In this pathbreaking work, Dagmar Herzog situates the birth of German liberalism in the religious conflicts of the nineteenth century. During the years leading up to the revolutions of 1848, liberal and conservative Germans engaged in a contest over the terms of the Enlightenment legacy and the meaning of Christianity--a contest that grew most intense in the Grand Duchy of Baden, where liberalism first became an influential political movement. Bringing insights drawn from Jewish and women's studies into German history, Herzog demonstrates how profoundly Christianity's problematic relationships to Judaism and to sexuality shaped liberal, conservative, and radical thought in the pre-revolutionary years. In particular, she reveals how often conflicts over the private sphere and the "politics of the personal" determined larger political matters.Herzog documents the unexpected rise of a politically sophisticated religious right led by conservative Catholics, and explores liberals' ensuing eagerness to advance a humanist version of Christianity. Yet she also examines the limitations at the heart of the liberal project, as well as the difficulties encountered by philo-Semitic and feminist radicals as they strove to reconceptualize both classical liberalism and Christianity in order to make room for the claims of Jews and women. The book challenges fundamental assumptions about processes of secularization and religious renewal and about Jewish-Christian relations in German history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Herzog, Dagmar

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, MAP OF BADEN IN THE 18405, Introduction, CHAPTER l Bodies and Souls, CHAPTER 2 Jewish Emancipation and Jewish Difference, CHAPTER 3 (Wo )Men's Emancipation and Women's Difference, CHAPTER 4 Problematics of Philosemitism, CHAPTER 5 The Feminist Conundrum, Conclusion, ABBREVIATIONS USED IN NOTES, NOTES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

Dagmar Herzog