Literature and Religion in the German-Speaking World

Ian Cooper is Lecturer in German at the University of Kent, Canterbury. John Walker is Reader in German Intellectual History at Birkbeck College, University of London.

• Introduction: literature and religion in the German-speaking world, 1200 to the present Ian Cooper and John Walker; 1. Pagan, Christian, secular: German writing until 1450 Almut Suerbaum; 2. Literature and religion in the Holy Roman Empire, 1450–1700 Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly; 3. German literature and religion, 1700–1770: the shock and normalization of the infinite John H. Smith; 4. Literature and religion in Germany, 1770–1830 Ian Cooper; 5. Culture, society and secularization: literature and religion in the German-speaking world, 1830–1900 John Walker; 6. Religion in German modernism, 1900–1945 Carolin Duttlinger; 7. German literature and religion, 1945 to the present day Daniel Weidner; Index.

'… an exceptional contribution to studies on literature and religion in the German-speaking world. It provides an over-view of 800 years of cultural history …' Jadwiga Kita-Huber, Monatshefte