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Informationen zum Autor Michael Printy is currently a Visiting Scholar in History at Wesleyan University. He earned his PhD from the University of California! Berkeley! and his BA from Yale University. He has published articles in German History and Catholic Historical Review! and he is the co-editor of Politics and Reformations! a two-volume Festschrift for Thomas A. Brady Jr. (2007). He was the winner of a Fulbright Fellowship for study in Germany in 1994 and a DAAD Fellowship in 1999. Klappentext This book explores the ways in which the German Catholic Enlightenment reconceived the relationship between religion! society! and the state. Zusammenfassung This book explores the ways in which the German Catholic Enlightenment reconceived the relationship between religion! society! and the state. Educated Catholics in the Holy Roman Empire questioned not only what it meant to be Catholic! but also what it meant to be German. In the process! they created German Catholicism. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; Part I. Perfect Societies: Rethinking the Church and the State: 2. The liberty of the German church: Febronianism and the German Gallicans; 3. The German church and the absolute state; 4. Church and empire in the eighteenth century; 5. Collegialism: the rise of the state, and the redefinition of the church; Part II. The Universal Church and the University Class: 6. Catholic enlightenment and the search for a bourgeois Catholicism; 7. A program for reform; 8. Pastors of enlightenment: reforming the secular clergy; 9. Gallican longings: nation and religion in the German enlightenment; 10. Conclusion.
