Religion and Society at the Dawn of Modern Europe: Christianity Transformed, 1750–1850

This book reveals how, in confrontation with secularity, various new forms of Christianity evolved during the time of Europe's crisis of modernization.
Rudolf Schlögl provides a comprehensive overview of the development of religious institutions and piety in Protestant and Catholic Europe between 1750 and 1850; at the same time, he offers a detailed exposition of contemporary philosophical, theological and socio-theoretical thought on the nature and function of religion; this allows us to understand the importance of religion in the self-defining of European society during a period of great change and upheaval.
Religion and Society at the Dawn of Modern Europe is a pivotal work – translated into English here for the first time – for all scholars and students of European society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.