Gods of the City

Anthony J. Steinhoff, Ph.D. in History, University of Chicago (1996), is Associate Professor of Modern European History at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He has published widely on European religious history, including articles in Geschichte und Gesellschaft and the Journal of Urban History.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsNote on Translations and CitationsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. From Grande Ville to Hauptstadt2. Strasbourg Metropolis3. The Parish Milieu4. Contested Visions: Church and State in the Reichsland5. The Worshipping Community6. Beyond the Culture Wars: Religious Education in School and Parish7. Ministering to the City8. Urbanizing Alsatian ProtestantismConclusionAppendicesBibliographyIndex

"Steinhoff has offered a lengthy analysis that reveals in its richness the complexities inherent in modernity...This study should help illuminate the contemporary view of the relation of religion to the secular sphere in western societies that are still ambivalent when it comes to the role of religion in the political life of states."Donald J. Dietrich, Church History, 80: 3, 2008, 700-702"äusserst materialreich....ein wirklich gewichtiges Buch."Friedrich Wilhelm Graf, Neue Politische Literatur, 53, 2008, 493-494"Ce n’est pas seulement une grande thèse d’histoire de l’Alsace, c’est une belle thèse d’histoire culturelle européenne, fondée, à la mode américaine, sur une étude de cas : l’étude de l’évolution du protestantisme strasbourgeois à la fin du XIXe et au début du XXe siècle. Elle se situe dans le sillage des études qui marquent le renouveau contemporain de l’histoire du fait religieux."François Igersheim, Revue d'Alsace, 2010"Steinhoff’s highly successful book remains a most thoughtful, clearly conceived, and well-organized study, one that deftly engages with and appropriately modifies the growing historiography on religion in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Europe.Mark Edward Ruff, Journal of Modern History, Sept. 2010, vol. 82, no. 3, 748-750