Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction. Negotiating the Religious and the Secular in Modern German History 1
4. Part I. Religious and Secular: Scientific Debates
5. 1. A Secular Age? The ‘Modern World’ and the Beginnings of the Sociology of Religion 31
6. 2. The Silence on the Land: Ancient Israel versus Modern Palestine in Scientific Theology 56
7. Part II. Religious and Secular Public Debates
8. 3. What Does It Mean To Be ‘Secular’ in the German Kaiserreich? An Intervention 99
9. 4. Secularism in the Long Nineteenth Century between the Global and the Local 115
10. Part III. Religious and Secular Negotiating Boundaries
11. 5. Retrieving Tradition? The Secular–Religious Ambiguity in Nineteenth-Century German-Jewish Anarchism 145
12. 6. Catholic Women as Global Actors of the Religious and the Secular 171
13. 7. Negotiating the Fundamentals? German Missions and the Experience of the Contact Zone, 1850–1918 196
14. Index 235