Popular Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Germany

by Jonathan Sperber

Book Overview

Focusing on an area roughly equivalent to the contemporary state of North Rhine-Westphalia, this description of popular religious life between 1830 and 1880 revises established postitions of German historiography. It depicts thee increasing laicization of the first half of the nineteenth century, with its mediocre church attendance and secularized morality, and goes on to show how the two decdes after 1850 reversed the trend toward secularization...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691655510
• ISBN13: 9780691655512
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 10.0"