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Going Dutch in the Modern Age: Abraham Kuyper's struggle for a free church in the nineteenth-century NetherlandsPublication Date: 2013-03-27
Abraham Kuyper is known as the energetic Dutch Protestant social activist and public theologian. The church was the point from which Kuyper's concerns for society and public theology radiated. In his own words, ''The problem of the church is none other than the problem of Christianity itself.'' The loss of state support for the church, religious pluralism, rising nationalism, and the populist religious revivals sweeping Europe in the nineteenth century all eroded the church's traditional supports. Dutch Protestantism faced the unprecedented prospect of ''going Dutch''; from now on it would have to pay its own way.
Abraham Kuyper: a short and personal introduction by Richard J. MouwPublication Date: 2011-06-10
As Mouw struggled to find the right Christian stance toward big social issues such as the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War, Mouw discovered Kuyper's Lectures on Calvinism -- and, with it, a robust vision of active Christian involvement in public life that has guided him ever since. In this book Mouw sets forth Kuyper's main ideas on Christian cultural discipleship, sphere sovereignty, the antithesis, common grace, and more. Mouw looks at ways to update -- and, in some places, even correct -- Kuyper's thought as he applies it to such twenty-first-century issues as pluralism, technology, and the challenge of Islam.
Fighting for the Soul of Germany: the Catholic struggle for inclusion after unification by Rebecca Ayako BennettePublication Date: 2012-06-20
Bennette's interpretation demonstrates that from 1871 Catholics were actively promoting a German national identity for the new Reich. In the years following unification, Germany was embroiled in a struggle to define the new nation. Bennette's reconstruction of Catholic thought and politics sheds light on several aspects of German life. From her discovery of Catholics who favored a more "feminine" alternative to Bismarckian militarism to her claim that anti-socialism, not anti-Semitism, energized Catholic politics, Bennette's work forces us to rethink much of what we know about religion and national identity in late nineteenth-century Germany.
The War Against Catholicism : liberalism and the anti-Catholic imagination in nineteenth-century GermanyPublication Date: 2004-06-28
After the defeat of liberalism in the Revolution of 1848 and during the dramatic revival of popular Catholicism, German liberals used anti-Catholicism to orient themselves culturally in a new age of capitalist economics, industrial expansion, and national unification. Gross argues that anti-Catholicism and specifically the Kulturkampt were not meant simply to break the power of the church and secure the autonomy of the state. The liberals' declaration of war against Catholicism and the Catholic Church was an attempt to preserve moral, social, political, and sexual order during a period of change.
Breaches and Bridges: reformed subcultures in the Netherlands, Germany, and the United States by George HarinckBridging the breaches : an introduction / George Harinck and Hans Krabbendam -- Breaches and bridges : the promises of a theme / Herman J. Selderhuis -- The Secession of 1834 and Dutch emigration to the United States : religious aspects of emigration in comparative perspective / Pieter R.D. Stokvis -- The dominating theology within the Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk after 1815 in its relation to the Secession of 1834 / Jasper Vree, Azn. -- A perfect agreement? : the theological context of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in the first half of the nineteenth century / Al Janssen -- True brothers : the Netherlandic origins of the Christian Reformed Church in North America, 1857-1880 / Robert P. Swierenga
Origins of Liberal Dominance: state, church, and party in nineteenth-century Europe by Andrew C. GouldPublication Date: 2010-06-02
Origins of Liberal Dominance offers a revealing account of how states, churches, and parties joined together to produce fundamentally new forms of organization that have shaped contemporary politics. Modern political life emerged when liberal movements sought to establish elections, constitutions, free markets, and religious liberty. What explains why liberals overcame their opponents in some countries but not in others? This book compares successful and unsuccessful attempts to build liberal political parties and establish liberal regimes in France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Germany from 1815 to World War I.
European Religion in the Age of the Great Cities, 1830-1930 by Hugh McLeodISBN: 9780203993088
Publication Date: 2005-08-18
Europe in the nineteenth century saw spectacular growth in the size and number of cities and in the proportion of the population living in urban areas. Many contemporaries thought that this social revolution would bring about an equally dramatic change in religious life. This book, written by an international team of specialists, provides an authoritative account of religious change, both at the institutional and popular level, in Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox cities, in seven European countries.
German Nationalism and Religious Conflict by Helmut Walser SmithPublication Date: 2014-07-14
The German Empire of 1871, although unified politically, remained deeply divided along religious lines. Smith offers social, cultural, and political history of this division. He argues that Protestants and Catholics were separated by an "invisible boundary" of culture. As these worlds came into contact, they also came into conflict. Smith explores the local as well as the national dimensions of this conflict, illuminating for the first time the history of the Protestant League as well as the dilemmas involved in Catholic integration into a national Protestant culture.
Populist Religion and Left-Wing Politics in France, 1830-1852 by Edward BerensonPublication Date: 2014-07-14
Berenson delves into the Montagnards' ideology and traces its diffusion and reception in the populist religious culture of rural France. This book shows how the urban based Montagnards were able to appeal to rural Frenchmen by advocating doctrines grounded in the ideals and morality of early Christianity.
Piety and Modernity by Anders Jarlert (Editor)Publication Date: 2012-01-01
This book examines the dynamics of religious reform from the point of view of piety and devotional life between 1780 and 1920 in Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia, Germany, and the Low Countries. The 'long' nineteenth century saw the introduction of devotional organizations as a means of channeling popular religion. This era also witnessed the translation and publication of devotional books, journals, and pamphlets on a massive scale. This edited volume explores the nature of pious reforms in such areas as liturgy, hymns, and Bible translation, with an emphasis on the changing patterns in religious expression.
The churches by Joris Van Eijnatten (Editor); Paula Yates (Editor)Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Developments in church-state relationships in north-western Europe between 1780 and 1920 had a substantial impact on reformist ideas, projects and movements within the churches. To which extent did church and state mutually influence each other in matters concerning ecclesiastical reform? The volume concentrates on the reforms generated by the churches themselves and on their response to the political and legal reforms initiated by the state.
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Going Dutch in the Modern Age: Abraham Kuyper's struggle for a free church in the nineteenth-century Netherlands
Abraham Kuyper: a short and personal introduction by 
Fighting for the Soul of Germany: the Catholic struggle for inclusion after unification by 
The War Against Catholicism : liberalism and the anti-Catholic imagination in nineteenth-century Germany
Origins of Liberal Dominance: state, church, and party in nineteenth-century Europe by 
European Religion in the Age of the Great Cities, 1830-1930 by 
German Nationalism and Religious Conflict by 
Populist Religion and Left-Wing Politics in France, 1830-1852 by