Book contents
- Red Secularism
- Red Secularism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introducing Socialism and Secularism as Two Cultures
- 2 Secularist Culture in an Industrializing City
- 3 Prometheans
- 4 The Sociology and Psychology of Secularist Intellectuals
- 5 Workers and Worldview
- 6 The Politics of Secularism 1905–1914
- 7 Secularists in War and Revolution 1914–1922
- 8 Monism in the Weimar Workers’ Culture Movement
- 9 Culture War at the End of the Weimar Republic
- Epilogue
- Appendixes
- Archives Used
- Index
2 - Secularist Culture in an Industrializing City
Berlin around 1890
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 November 2023
- Red Secularism
- Red Secularism
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introducing Socialism and Secularism as Two Cultures
- 2 Secularist Culture in an Industrializing City
- 3 Prometheans
- 4 The Sociology and Psychology of Secularist Intellectuals
- 5 Workers and Worldview
- 6 The Politics of Secularism 1905–1914
- 7 Secularists in War and Revolution 1914–1922
- 8 Monism in the Weimar Workers’ Culture Movement
- 9 Culture War at the End of the Weimar Republic
- Epilogue
- Appendixes
- Archives Used
- Index
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
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- Red SecularismSocialism and Secularist Culture in Germany 1890 to 1933, pp. 29 - 62Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023