“The Most Advanced Nation on the Path of Liberty”: Universalism and National Difference in International Freethought

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Notes on Contributors 1
4. Abstracts 5
5. Freethinkers in Modern Europe’s Secularities: Introduction 13
6. Freidenkerei, Libre-pensée, Szabadgondolkodás – Concepts of Freethinking during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 35
7. I Secularities: National Perspectives
8. Garibaldi and Mazzini: Anticlericalism, Laicism, and the Concept of a National Religion 87
9. Group Portrait with Freethinker: Jacob Moleschott, Risorgimento Culture, and the Italian Nation-Building Process 109
10. Secularity in the New State: The Case of Poland 131
11. Friends and Foes: Two Secularisms in late Nineteenth-Century Sweden 155
12. II Organized Freethought in National, International, and Transnational Entanglements
13. Integration through Science? Nationalism and Internationalism in the German Monist Movement (1906–1918) 181
14. “The Most Advanced Nation on the Path of Liberty”: Universalism and National Difference in International Freethought 203
15. Socialist Secularism between Nation, State, and the Transnational Movement: The International of Proletarian Freethinkers in Central and Eastern Europe 235
16. III Freethinkers’ Networks and Projects Critically Revised
17. A Movement That Never Materialized: The Perception of Scientific Materialism as a Secular Movement in Nineteenth-Century Germany 273
18. Politicizing a (Non)Religious Act: The Secularist Church Exit Propaganda of the Komitee Konfessionslos (1908–1914) 297
19. A Secular Avant-Garde? About the Unknown Freethinker Roots of Today’s French Civil Baptism 331
20. Illustrations 351
21. Index of Names 353
22. Index of Places 355
23. Index of Subjects 357