Rebekka Habermas is Professor of Modern German History at the University of Göttingen. She has also been a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at Oxford University and Theodor Heuss Professor at The New School in New York. Her publications include Frauen und Männer des Bürgertums: Eine Familiengeschichte (2000), Thieves in Court: The Making of the German Legal System in the Nineteenth Century (2016), and Skandal in Togo: Ein Kapitel deutscher Kolonialherrschaft (2016).

Introduction: Negotiating the Religious and the Secular in Modern German History
Rebekka Habermas

PART I: RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR: SCIENTIFIC DEBATES

Chapter 1. A Secular Age? The 'Modern World' and the Beginnings of the Sociology of Religion
Wolfgang Knöbl

Chapter 2. The Silence on the Land: Ancient Israel versus Modern Palestine in Scientific Theology
Paul Michael Kurtz

PART II: RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR: PUBLIC DEBATES

Chapter 3. What Means to Be 'Secular' in the German Kaiserreich? An Intervention
Lucian Hölscher

Chapter 4. Secularism in the Long Nineteenth Century between the Global and the Local
Rebekka Habermas

PART III: RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR: NEGOTIATING BOUNDARIES

Chapter 5. Retrieving Tradition? The Secular-Religious Ambiguity in Nineteenth Century German-Jewish Anarchism
Carolin Kosuch

Chapter 6. Catholic Women as Global Actors of the Religious and the Secular
Relinde Meiwes

Chapter 7. Negotiating the Fundamentals? German Missions and the Experience of the Contact Zone, 1850-1918
Richard Hölzl and Karolin Wetjen

Index