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  • 2 - Secularist Culture in an Industrializing City

  • Todd H. Weir, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
  • Book:
    Red Secularism
    Published online:
    30 November 2023
    Print publication:
    30 November 2023, pp 29-62

  • Summary

    This chapter maps secularism as a culture, using the example of Berlin. It takes the reader through all of the venues that provided materialist monism and establishes their relationship to the socialist milieu. It begins in Free Religion, and then analyzes the city’s chief popular scientific institutions. It looks in detail at the offerings of each to illuminate how monism was communicated. This chapter argues that despite political polarization among the secularist organizations, there was nonetheless a great deal of ideological and personnel coherence across the secularist spectrum