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Popular Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Germany
By (Author) Jonathan Sperber
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
1st July 2019
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
282.43
Hardback
336
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
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