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6 - The Politics of Secularism 1905–1914

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 November 2023

Todd H. Weir
Todd H. Weir
Affiliation:
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
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This chapter examines the impact of anticlericalism and secularism on German politics. It charts the significance of secularism in the relations between radicals, revisionists and liberals in the period between the church-leaving campaign 1906-14 and the end of the German revolution in 1923. It examines how factions of the SPD clashed over the church-leaving movement of 1909 to 1914. Special attention will be given to the cooperation of secularist revisionists around Eduard Bernstein with left liberals and anti-political leaders of cultural reform efforts, such as Eugen Diederichs.

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politics of secularismBerlinMunichPrussiachurch-leaving movementKulturkampfmass strikerevisionismEugen DiederichsAdolph HoffmannErnst Horneffer
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Red Secularism
Socialism and Secularist Culture in Germany 1890 to 1933
 , pp. 153 - 195
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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