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Book SynopsisThe German Empire of 1871, although unified politically, remained deeply divided along religious lines. In German Nationalism and Religious Conflict, Helmut Walser Smith offers the first social, cultural, and political history of this division. He argues that Protestants and Catholics lived in different worlds, separated by an "invisible boundary"
Trade Review"Smith describes a familiar narrative in a provocative and novel way... Fruitfully using works in cultural studies, as well as the recent historiography of the politics of religion, Smith presents a finely textured account of Catholic-Protestant difference."--Choice
Table of ContentsList of Figures and TablesAcknowledgmentsNotes on Usage and TranslationIntroduction51The Kulturkampf and German National Identity19Protestantism and Kultur: Constructing a National Canon20Force, Freedom, and Cultural Disunity: The Role of the State37The Kulturkampf and the Catholic Community422Visions of the Nation: The Ideology of Religious Conflict50The Ideology of the Protestant League51Catholics, the Nation, and the Roots of Antagonism613Religious Conflict and Social Life79"The Invisible Boundary"80Secularization85Confessional Integration and Confessional Conflict94The Social Bases of Confessional Conflict1024The Politics of Nationalism and Religious Conflict, 1897-1906117Sammlungspolitik, Salutations, and the Jesuit Law: Symbolic Politics118The Underground Politics of the Protestant League127The Reaction of the Catholic Center1385The Politics of Nationalism and Religious Conflict, 1907-14141German Nationalism and the Catholic Center in the Bulow Bloc142The Organization of the Nation: Religious Conflict inside the Nationalist Pressure Groups146The Collapse of the Bulow Bloc and the Eclipse of Integral Nationalist Politics1546Protestants, Catholics, and Poles: Religious and Nationality Conflicts in the Empire's Ethnically Mixed Areas, 1897-1914169The Geography of National and Religious Conflict in the Ethnic Borderlands of the Prussian East170German Protestants and Catholic Poles173The Protestant League and the Limits of Protestant Organization in the Ethnic Borderlands178German Catholics and Polish Catholics: The Making of an Antagonism185The Catholic Center and the Nationality Conflict1917Los von Rom: Religious Conflict and the Quest for a Spiritual Pan-Germany206The Allure of Nationalism: The Appeal of Los von Rom211Throne, Altar, and National Religion219Pan-German Politics and the Demise of Los von Rom225Conclusion233Sources241Index267
