T H Weir
Biographic Data
| ID | 2298374 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T H Weir |
| GIVEN NAMES | T H |
| FAMILY NAME | Weir |
| SIGNATURE | WEIR T H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2840-2736 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1899 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Forging ‘worldview’ in modern culture wars
Red Secularism
Red Secularism is the first substantive investigation into one of the key sources of radicalism in modern German, the subculture that arose at the intersection of secularism and socialism in the late nineteenth-century. It explores the organizations that promoted their humanistic-monistic worldview through popular science and asks how this worldview shaped the biographies of ambitious self-educated workers and early feminists. Todd H. Weir shows …
Religious Politics in the German Revolution
This article shows the significant role played by religious politics in the German Revolution of 1918. It examines first how the secularist subculture within German socialism contributed to the formation of wartime opposition that led to the 1917 split of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). It then follows the actions of secularists during the revolution itself, beginning with the attempts of one of Germany's most prominent secularists, Adolph Hof…
Heritage and Religious Change in Contemporary Europe
This article examines the relationship between heritage and three dimensions of religious change that have characterized Europe since the 1960s, namely secularization, pluralization, and spiritualization. Following an analysis of the role of religious heritage in both public discourse and academia, the essay turns to recent heritage initiatives, and explores how churches, secular organizations and government agencies have responded to the shiftin…
Religion and Socialism in the Long 1960s
One of the most remarkable transformations of European society and politics during the Cold War period was in relations between socialism and religion. Extreme hostility between revolutionary socialism and Christianity had been a structural component of major political conflicts in the trans-war period of 1914 to 1945. With an eye to violence against churches in Mexico, Spain and the Soviet Union, Pope Pius XI had declared in 1937 that 'for the f…
Hitler's Worldview and the Interwar Kulturkampf
This conceptual historical investigation of Adolf Hitler's use of the term ‘worldview’ ( Weltanschauung) opens new perspectives on the debate over the relationship of religion and National Socialism. Most studies of Hitler's worldview have focused on the genealogy of his beliefs, an approach that has led to an anachronistic understanding of worldview. By contrast, this article reveals that Hitler's own usage of the term ‘worldview’ was decisively…
Introduction
This special issue of the Journal of Contemporary History on ‘Europe’s interwar Kulturkampf’ explores the religious dimensions of the deep conflicts that characterized the interbellum. The heightened sense of contingency, the partisan violence, and the political polarization have led observers to call this period an ‘age of anxiety’, an ‘age of catastrophe’, ‘a second thirty years war’, even a ‘world civil war of ideologies’.1 Introducing the ter…
Handbuch der Religionsgeschichte im deutschsprachigen Raum
Der Doppelband zum 20. Jahrhundert verfolgt gegenüber den anderen Bänden der Reihe einen besonderen Ansatz: Sozial- und semantikgeschichtliche Aspekte werden in einem wissenssoziologischen Ansatz verbunden, der davon ausgeht, dass sich religiös-soziale Formationen und religiöse Semantiken wechselseitig beeinflussen, ohne doch in einander aufzugehen. Daher ist Religion im 20. Jahrhundert mehr denn je ein umstrittener Sachverhalt. Säkularisierung, …
Antiklerikalismus als europäisches Phänomen
In the first decade of the present century, a number of important collaborative works issued calls for the reinterpretation of nineteenth-century history from a transnational perspective. Christopher Clark and Wolfram Kaiser laid out a new research agenda for the international history of religious conflict in the introduction to their collected volume Culture Wars: Secular-Catholic Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Europe (2003). Yet, like another i…
Germany and the New Global History of Secularism
Secularism has emerged as a central category of twenty-first century political thought that in many ways has replaced the theory of secularization. According to postcolonial scholars, neither the theory nor the practice of secularization was politically neutral. They define secularism as the set of discourses, policies, and constitutional arrangements whereby modern states and liberal elites have sought to unify nations and divide colonial popula…
The Christian Front Against Godlessness
Journal Article The Christian Front Against Godlessness: Anti-Secularism and the Demise of the Weimar Republic, 1928–1933 Get access Todd H. Weir Todd H. Weir Queen's University Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 229, Issue 1, November 2015, Pages 201–238, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtv035 Published: 27 October 2015
Secularism and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Negotiating the boundaries of the secular and of the religious is a core aspect of modern experience. In mid-nineteenth-century Germany, secularism emerged to oppose church establishment, conservative orthodoxy, and national division between Catholics, Protestants, and Jews. Yet, as historian Todd H. Weir argues in this provocative book, early secularism was not the opposite of religion. It developed in the rationalist dissent of Free Religion an…
A E uropean Culture War in the Twentieth Century? Anti‐Catholicism and Anti‐Bolshevism between M oscow, B erlin, and the V atican 1922 to 1933
The term “culture war” has become a generic expression for secular–Catholic conflicts across nineteenth‐century Europe. Yet, if measured by acts of violence, anticlericalism peaked in the years between 1927 and 1939, when thousands of Catholic priests and believers were imprisoned or executed and hundreds of churches razed in Mexico, Spain, and Russia. This article argues that not only in these three countries, but indeed across Europe a culture …
Imperial Germany Revisited
This volume offers valuable reflections on the state of the field by leading international historians of Imperial Germany. Its twenty-one essays, now translated and partially revised, originally appeared in a 2009 festschrift for Hans-Ulrich Wehler entitled Das Deutsche Kaiserreich in der Kontroverse. While many do not respond directly to the strong theses of the Bielefeld historian, it is fair to say that all these essays reflect the lasting pro…
The Specter of “Godless Jewry”
When asked to provide his own “solution to the Jewish Question” for a 1907 survey, the journalist and philosopher Fritz Mauthner responded, “I do not know how to give an answer to your question, because I do not know which Jewish question you mean. The Jewish question is posed differently by every questioner, differently at every time, differently at every location.” While untypical for its time, Mauthner's viewpoint is shared by many scholars wh…
Between Colonial Violence and Socialist Worldview
In 1900, Ernst Däumig (1866–1922) wrote to Karl Kautsky of his ‘bitter experiences’ of violence in the French Foreign Legion and then in the Prussian military that had led to his recent ‘conversion’ to the socialist worldview. This article takes up Däumig's letters, articles and travelogues, and a drama, to explore how he recast his experiences of colonial and military violence twice, first as a writer for a German soldiers’ journal and then as a…
The Secular Beyond
Toward the end of the first third of the nineteenth century, German writers began to favor a new metaphor for the afterlife: "das Jenseits" ("the Beyond"). At first glance, the emergence of such a term may appear to have little bearing on our understanding of the history of religious thought. However, as the late historian Reinhart Koselleck maintained, the study of semantic changes can betray tectonic shifts in the matrix of ideas that underpin …
Was Mohammed Sincere
"Weir's "Arabic Prose Composition
XXII. The Persian and Turkish Manuscripts in the Hunterian Library of the University of Glasgow
In the Journal for October, 1899, there was published a hand-list of the Arabic, Hebrew, and Syriac manuscripts in Dr. Hunter's collection. The following pages contain a list of the Persian and Turkish manuscripts. The late Mr. E. J. W. Gibb visited the library and examined the Turkish manuscripts, leaving in each of them, with the exception of one or two which escaped notice at the time, a slip, with his initials, describing its contents. These …
Art. XXIX.—Translation of an Arabic Manuscript in the Hunterian Collection, Glasgow University
[In the Hunterian MS. the following tractate is ascribed to Ibnu'l ‘Arabī, d. 638 A.H. = 1240 A.D. In one of the Berlin MSS., however, it is called Risālatu'l Balbānīyah, by Muḥammad al Balbānī (Ahlwardt, 3, 250); in another Suyūṭī is given as the author (Ahlwardt, 1, 830). In the British Museum MSS. (Arabic Catalogue, No. DCCCLXXXI, ix, and Supplementary Catalogue, No. 245, x) the author is given as Auḥad al Dīn ‘Abdallah al Balyānī, d. 686 A.H.…
Art. XIX.—The Arabic, Syriac, and Hebrew Manuscripts in the Hunterian Library in the University of Glasgow
Dr. William Hunter (d. 1783) bequeathed to the University of Glasgow, along with his Natural History Collection, a library containing about twelve thousand volumes of printed books and six hundred manuscripts. The latter were catalogued by G. Haenel, in his Catalogi Librorum Manuscriptorum , Leipzig, 1830, columns 786–798. In regard to the Oriental manuscripts, however, he frequently does no more than state in what languages they are written, and…
Germany and the New Global History of Secularism
Secularism has emerged as a central category of twenty-first century political thought that in many ways has replaced the theory of secularization. According to postcolonial scholars, neither the theory nor the practice of secularization was politically neutral. They define secularism as the set of discourses, policies, and constitutional arrangements whereby modern states and liberal elites have sought to unify nations and divide colonial popula…
Hitler's Worldview and the Interwar Kulturkampf
This conceptual historical investigation of Adolf Hitler's use of the term ‘worldview’ ( Weltanschauung) opens new perspectives on the debate over the relationship of religion and National Socialism. Most studies of Hitler's worldview have focused on the genealogy of his beliefs, an approach that has led to an anachronistic understanding of worldview. By contrast, this article reveals that Hitler's own usage of the term ‘worldview’ was decisively…
The Specter of “Godless Jewry”
When asked to provide his own “solution to the Jewish Question” for a 1907 survey, the journalist and philosopher Fritz Mauthner responded, “I do not know how to give an answer to your question, because I do not know which Jewish question you mean. The Jewish question is posed differently by every questioner, differently at every time, differently at every location.” While untypical for its time, Mauthner's viewpoint is shared by many scholars wh…
Introduction
This special issue of the Journal of Contemporary History on ‘Europe’s interwar Kulturkampf’ explores the religious dimensions of the deep conflicts that characterized the interbellum. The heightened sense of contingency, the partisan violence, and the political polarization have led observers to call this period an ‘age of anxiety’, an ‘age of catastrophe’, ‘a second thirty years war’, even a ‘world civil war of ideologies’.1 Introducing the ter…
The Christian Front Against Godlessness
Journal Article The Christian Front Against Godlessness: Anti-Secularism and the Demise of the Weimar Republic, 1928–1933 Get access Todd H. Weir Todd H. Weir Queen's University Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 229, Issue 1, November 2015, Pages 201–238, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtv035 Published: 27 October 2015
A E uropean Culture War in the Twentieth Century? Anti‐Catholicism and Anti‐Bolshevism between M oscow, B erlin, and the V atican 1922 to 1933
The term “culture war” has become a generic expression for secular–Catholic conflicts across nineteenth‐century Europe. Yet, if measured by acts of violence, anticlericalism peaked in the years between 1927 and 1939, when thousands of Catholic priests and believers were imprisoned or executed and hundreds of churches razed in Mexico, Spain, and Russia. This article argues that not only in these three countries, but indeed across Europe a culture …
Religion and Socialism in the Long 1960s
One of the most remarkable transformations of European society and politics during the Cold War period was in relations between socialism and religion. Extreme hostility between revolutionary socialism and Christianity had been a structural component of major political conflicts in the trans-war period of 1914 to 1945. With an eye to violence against churches in Mexico, Spain and the Soviet Union, Pope Pius XI had declared in 1937 that 'for the f…
The Secular Beyond
Toward the end of the first third of the nineteenth century, German writers began to favor a new metaphor for the afterlife: "das Jenseits" ("the Beyond"). At first glance, the emergence of such a term may appear to have little bearing on our understanding of the history of religious thought. However, as the late historian Reinhart Koselleck maintained, the study of semantic changes can betray tectonic shifts in the matrix of ideas that underpin …
XXII. The Persian and Turkish Manuscripts in the Hunterian Library of the University of Glasgow
In the Journal for October, 1899, there was published a hand-list of the Arabic, Hebrew, and Syriac manuscripts in Dr. Hunter's collection. The following pages contain a list of the Persian and Turkish manuscripts. The late Mr. E. J. W. Gibb visited the library and examined the Turkish manuscripts, leaving in each of them, with the exception of one or two which escaped notice at the time, a slip, with his initials, describing its contents. These …
Art. XIX.—The Arabic, Syriac, and Hebrew Manuscripts in the Hunterian Library in the University of Glasgow
Dr. William Hunter (d. 1783) bequeathed to the University of Glasgow, along with his Natural History Collection, a library containing about twelve thousand volumes of printed books and six hundred manuscripts. The latter were catalogued by G. Haenel, in his Catalogi Librorum Manuscriptorum , Leipzig, 1830, columns 786–798. In regard to the Oriental manuscripts, however, he frequently does no more than state in what languages they are written, and…
Art. XIX.—The Arabic, Syriac, and Hebrew Manuscripts in the Hunterian Library in the University of Glasgow
Dr. William Hunter (d. 1783) bequeathed to the University of Glasgow, along with his Natural History Collection, a library containing about twelve thousand volumes of printed books and six hundred manuscripts. The latter were catalogued by G. Haenel, in his Catalogi Librorum Manuscriptorum , Leipzig, 1830, columns 786–798. In regard to the Oriental manuscripts, however, he frequently does no more than state in what languages they are written, and…
Art. XXIX.—Translation of an Arabic Manuscript in the Hunterian Collection, Glasgow University
[In the Hunterian MS. the following tractate is ascribed to Ibnu'l ‘Arabī, d. 638 A.H. = 1240 A.D. In one of the Berlin MSS., however, it is called Risālatu'l Balbānīyah, by Muḥammad al Balbānī (Ahlwardt, 3, 250); in another Suyūṭī is given as the author (Ahlwardt, 1, 830). In the British Museum MSS. (Arabic Catalogue, No. DCCCLXXXI, ix, and Supplementary Catalogue, No. 245, x) the author is given as Auḥad al Dīn ‘Abdallah al Balyānī, d. 686 A.H.…
XXII. The Persian and Turkish Manuscripts in the Hunterian Library of the University of Glasgow
In the Journal for October, 1899, there was published a hand-list of the Arabic, Hebrew, and Syriac manuscripts in Dr. Hunter's collection. The following pages contain a list of the Persian and Turkish manuscripts. The late Mr. E. J. W. Gibb visited the library and examined the Turkish manuscripts, leaving in each of them, with the exception of one or two which escaped notice at the time, a slip, with his initials, describing its contents. These …
"Weir's "Arabic Prose Composition
Was Mohammed Sincere
The Secular Beyond
Toward the end of the first third of the nineteenth century, German writers began to favor a new metaphor for the afterlife: "das Jenseits" ("the Beyond"). At first glance, the emergence of such a term may appear to have little bearing on our understanding of the history of religious thought. However, as the late historian Reinhart Koselleck maintained, the study of semantic changes can betray tectonic shifts in the matrix of ideas that underpin …
Between Colonial Violence and Socialist Worldview
In 1900, Ernst Däumig (1866–1922) wrote to Karl Kautsky of his ‘bitter experiences’ of violence in the French Foreign Legion and then in the Prussian military that had led to his recent ‘conversion’ to the socialist worldview. This article takes up Däumig's letters, articles and travelogues, and a drama, to explore how he recast his experiences of colonial and military violence twice, first as a writer for a German soldiers’ journal and then as a…
Imperial Germany Revisited
This volume offers valuable reflections on the state of the field by leading international historians of Imperial Germany. Its twenty-one essays, now translated and partially revised, originally appeared in a 2009 festschrift for Hans-Ulrich Wehler entitled Das Deutsche Kaiserreich in der Kontroverse. While many do not respond directly to the strong theses of the Bielefeld historian, it is fair to say that all these essays reflect the lasting pro…
The Specter of “Godless Jewry”
When asked to provide his own “solution to the Jewish Question” for a 1907 survey, the journalist and philosopher Fritz Mauthner responded, “I do not know how to give an answer to your question, because I do not know which Jewish question you mean. The Jewish question is posed differently by every questioner, differently at every time, differently at every location.” While untypical for its time, Mauthner's viewpoint is shared by many scholars wh…
Secularism and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Negotiating the boundaries of the secular and of the religious is a core aspect of modern experience. In mid-nineteenth-century Germany, secularism emerged to oppose church establishment, conservative orthodoxy, and national division between Catholics, Protestants, and Jews. Yet, as historian Todd H. Weir argues in this provocative book, early secularism was not the opposite of religion. It developed in the rationalist dissent of Free Religion an…
A E uropean Culture War in the Twentieth Century? Anti‐Catholicism and Anti‐Bolshevism between M oscow, B erlin, and the V atican 1922 to 1933
The term “culture war” has become a generic expression for secular–Catholic conflicts across nineteenth‐century Europe. Yet, if measured by acts of violence, anticlericalism peaked in the years between 1927 and 1939, when thousands of Catholic priests and believers were imprisoned or executed and hundreds of churches razed in Mexico, Spain, and Russia. This article argues that not only in these three countries, but indeed across Europe a culture …
Germany and the New Global History of Secularism
Secularism has emerged as a central category of twenty-first century political thought that in many ways has replaced the theory of secularization. According to postcolonial scholars, neither the theory nor the practice of secularization was politically neutral. They define secularism as the set of discourses, policies, and constitutional arrangements whereby modern states and liberal elites have sought to unify nations and divide colonial popula…
The Christian Front Against Godlessness
Journal Article The Christian Front Against Godlessness: Anti-Secularism and the Demise of the Weimar Republic, 1928–1933 Get access Todd H. Weir Todd H. Weir Queen's University Belfast Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 229, Issue 1, November 2015, Pages 201–238, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtv035 Published: 27 October 2015
Handbuch der Religionsgeschichte im deutschsprachigen Raum
Der Doppelband zum 20. Jahrhundert verfolgt gegenüber den anderen Bänden der Reihe einen besonderen Ansatz: Sozial- und semantikgeschichtliche Aspekte werden in einem wissenssoziologischen Ansatz verbunden, der davon ausgeht, dass sich religiös-soziale Formationen und religiöse Semantiken wechselseitig beeinflussen, ohne doch in einander aufzugehen. Daher ist Religion im 20. Jahrhundert mehr denn je ein umstrittener Sachverhalt. Säkularisierung, …
Antiklerikalismus als europäisches Phänomen
In the first decade of the present century, a number of important collaborative works issued calls for the reinterpretation of nineteenth-century history from a transnational perspective. Christopher Clark and Wolfram Kaiser laid out a new research agenda for the international history of religious conflict in the introduction to their collected volume Culture Wars: Secular-Catholic Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Europe (2003). Yet, like another i…
Hitler's Worldview and the Interwar Kulturkampf
This conceptual historical investigation of Adolf Hitler's use of the term ‘worldview’ ( Weltanschauung) opens new perspectives on the debate over the relationship of religion and National Socialism. Most studies of Hitler's worldview have focused on the genealogy of his beliefs, an approach that has led to an anachronistic understanding of worldview. By contrast, this article reveals that Hitler's own usage of the term ‘worldview’ was decisively…
Introduction
This special issue of the Journal of Contemporary History on ‘Europe’s interwar Kulturkampf’ explores the religious dimensions of the deep conflicts that characterized the interbellum. The heightened sense of contingency, the partisan violence, and the political polarization have led observers to call this period an ‘age of anxiety’, an ‘age of catastrophe’, ‘a second thirty years war’, even a ‘world civil war of ideologies’.1 Introducing the ter…
Religion and Socialism in the Long 1960s
One of the most remarkable transformations of European society and politics during the Cold War period was in relations between socialism and religion. Extreme hostility between revolutionary socialism and Christianity had been a structural component of major political conflicts in the trans-war period of 1914 to 1945. With an eye to violence against churches in Mexico, Spain and the Soviet Union, Pope Pius XI had declared in 1937 that 'for the f…
Heritage and Religious Change in Contemporary Europe
This article examines the relationship between heritage and three dimensions of religious change that have characterized Europe since the 1960s, namely secularization, pluralization, and spiritualization. Following an analysis of the role of religious heritage in both public discourse and academia, the essay turns to recent heritage initiatives, and explores how churches, secular organizations and government agencies have responded to the shiftin…
Red Secularism
Red Secularism is the first substantive investigation into one of the key sources of radicalism in modern German, the subculture that arose at the intersection of secularism and socialism in the late nineteenth-century. It explores the organizations that promoted their humanistic-monistic worldview through popular science and asks how this worldview shaped the biographies of ambitious self-educated workers and early feminists. Todd H. Weir shows …
Religious Politics in the German Revolution
This article shows the significant role played by religious politics in the German Revolution of 1918. It examines first how the secularist subculture within German socialism contributed to the formation of wartime opposition that led to the 1917 split of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). It then follows the actions of secularists during the revolution itself, beginning with the attempts of one of Germany's most prominent secularists, Adolph Hof…
Forging ‘worldview’ in modern culture wars
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