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1 online resource |
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Publications of the German Historical Institute |
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Publications of the German Historical Institute.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 At the Origins of Germany's Book Wars, 1770-1815 -- ''Tasteless'' Popular Reading and Its Cultured Despisers -- Gustatory Reading Rules in the German ''New Jerusalem'' -- The ''Great Connoisseurs'' Return -- Opening Salvos against Catholic ''Stupidity'' -- Conclusion -- 2 Gall and Honey in the Catholic Theology of Cultural Taste -- Learning to Read -- Indiscriminate Appetites: Popular Reading in Germania Sacra -- Gall: The Legend of Catholic Reading Discipline -- Honey: Pastoral Strategies of Reading Steerage -- 1 They Should Listen to Texts Read Orally -- 2 They Should Read under the Direction of Priests -- 3 They Should Recognize Communal over Personal Discernment of a Text's Value -- 4 They Should Read for Spiritual Edification -- 5 ''Bad'' Books Should Be Replaced with ''Good'' Ones -- Conclusion -- 3 Reading Run Amok in Prussia Triumphant, 1815-1845 -- The Rhenish-Westphalian Contact Zone -- Pious Reading in the Eye of the Storm -- The Breach Only Widens -- When the Cat's Away. . . -- Conclusion -- 4 Book Mischief in the ''Papal Monarchy, '' 1845-1880 -- Bringing ''Mischief'' under Control: The Association of Saint Charles Borromeo -- Guardian Angels during the Kulturkampf -- Open Rebellion in a Perforated Fortress -- The Clergy Break against ''Second Nature Habits'' -- Conclusion -- 5 Catholics and Their ''Deficit in Education'' -- Life on the Periphery -- Dealing with ''Inferiority'' -- Warming Up to Wissenschaft -- ''We Are Modern Men!'' The Catholic Effort in Popular Education -- Conclusion -- 6 The Tail Wags the Dog -- The Bishops' Libraries Rot -- Readers Turn Away and Elsewhere for Good -- Fides et Ratio: The Theological Wellspring of Reading Renewal |
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The Association of Saint Charles Borromeo's Second Spring -- Conclusion -- 7 Brave New World -- Starting Over -- Propaganda Fide -- Something for Everyone -- The Fruits of the Second Spring -- Conclusion -- 8 An Appetite for Pleasure -- A Sanctified Space for Companions -- A Shrug of the Shoulders at Book Discipline -- ''I Must Read Everything'' -- Bildung and Belonging in the Domestic Sphere -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Selected Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Archival Material -- Contemporary Periodicals -- Contemporary Literature -- Index |
| Summary |
Popular conceptions of Catholic censorship, symbolized above all by the Index of Forbidden Books, figure prominently in secular definitions of freedom. To be intellectually free is to enjoy access to knowledge unimpeded by any religious authority. But how would the history of freedom change if these conceptions were false? In this panoramic study of Catholic book culture in Germany from 1770-1914, Jeffrey T. Zalar exposes the myth of faith-based intellectual repression. Catholic readers disobeyed the book rules of their church in a vast apostasy that raised personal desire and conscience over communal responsibility and doctrine. This disobedience sparked a dramatic contest between lay readers and their priests over proper book behavior that played out in homes, schools, libraries, parish meeting halls, even church confessionals. The clergy lost this contest in a fundamental reordering of cultural power that helped usher in contemporary Catholicism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 5, 2018) |
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Catholics -- Books and reading -- Germany -- History
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Books and reading -- Social aspects -- Germany
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Christian life.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Books & Reading.
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Books and reading -- Social aspects
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Catholics -- Books and reading
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Christian life
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Germany
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108691796 |
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110869179X |
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9781108561648 |
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1108561640 |
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