![]() | Popular Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Germany Subjects: Catholic -- Germany -- History -- 19th century; Catholics -- Germany (West) -- North Rhine-Westphalia -- History -- 19th century; Germany -- Religious life and customs; North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) -- Religious life and customs; Germany -- Politics an; 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. During the latter period, renewal of the people's loyalty to the church encouraged a developing political Catholicism. |
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