BIBFRAME Work

Title

Handbook of religious culture in nineteenth-century Europe

Type

• Monograph
• Text

Contribution

• Steinhoff, Anthony J. (editor)
• Zalar, Jeffrey T. (editor)

Subject

• Europe--Religion--History--19th century (LCSH)
• Religion and culture--Europe--History--19th century (LCSH)
• Sociologie religieuse--Europe--Histoire--19e siècle (RVM)
• Religion et culture--Europe--Histoire--19e siècle (RVM)
• Religion and sociology--Europe--History--19th century (LCSH)

Language

• English

Illustrative Content

• illustrations

Classification

• LCC: BL695 .H36 2025 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
• DDC: 200.9409034

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• index
• bibliography

Summary

"This handbook offers a guide to research on religious culture during Europe's long nineteenth century (1800-1914). Grounded in the latest theoretical approaches and in line with trends that have produced a "religious turn" in the study of modern Europe, the volume assesses the state of the field while making provocative recommendations for its enlargement. Unique and ambitious in its thematic breadth, it addresses the histories of all five of Europe's main religious traditions - Eastern Orthodox Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Protestantism, and Roman Catholicism - and brings these histories into comparative analysis. This analysis extends to a wide range of subjects, from popular belief and practice, education and modern knowledge formation, and the arts to the intersections between religion and urbanization, civil society and politics, and missions and imperialism. It also evaluates recent developments in work on religion vis-à-vis both gender and nationalism, while calling attention to newer research that proposes secularism as a form of belief in its own right. Presenting the scholarship of eighteen leaders in their respective fields, the volume explains why religion as a topic of research has moved from the periphery to the center of modern European historiography." -- Publisher, page four of cover.

Table of Contents

Part I: Faith traditions. -- 1. Eastern Orthodox Christianity / Heather Bailey -- 2. Islam / Nathalie Clayer -- 3. Judaism / David Meola -- 4. Protestantism / Patrick Cabanel -- 5. Roman Catholicism / Thomas Kselman -- 6. Popular religion / Jeffrey T. Zalar -- 7. Secularism and unbelief / Carolin Kosuch -- Part II: Cultures of knowledge. -- 8. Education / Anthony J. Steinhoff -- 9. Theology / Mark D. Chapman -- 10. Publishing and reading / Jeffrey T. Zalar -- Part III: Religion and the arts. -- 11. Architecture / Samuel J. Kessler, Anthony J. Steinhoff -- 12. Religion and literature / Daniel Weidner -- 13. Music / Bennett Zon -- 14. Visual arts / Sarah Schaefer -- Part IV: Religion and civil society. -- 15. Gender / Yvonne Maria Werner -- 16. Missions and empire / Norman Etherington -- 17. The social question / Leen Van Molle -- 18. Voluntarism / Anthony J. Steinhoff -- 19. Religion and national politics / Siegfried Weichlein -- 20. Church and state / Werner Daum, Anthony J. Steinhoff.

Authorized Access Point

Handbook of religious culture in nineteenth-century Europe

Geographic Coverage

• Europe

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T20:21:32.474584+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 23741308

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc