Politics and Piety : The Protestant Awakening in Prussia, 1816-1856.

Intro -- Politics and Piety: The Protestant Awakening in Prussia, 1816-1856 -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Problematics -- Common Characteristics of the Transatlantic Awakening -- Variations of the German Awakening -- Circumspection and Methodological Choices -- Agony and Ecstasy in Prussia's Heartland -- Tying Together Politics and Religion -- Chapter Outline -- 1 Revival, Quietism, and Change -- The Stirring of Revival among Elites in Berlin -- Habitus and Social Reproduction -- Placing the Awakening in the Context of Prussia's Sociopolitical Order and Church Affairs -- Conventicles in Action in Brandenburg and Pomerania -- The Reform of Conventicle Policies -- 2 Sects and Violence: The Politicization of the Awakening -- Awakened Journalism -- The Foundation of the Evangelische Kirchenzeitung -- The 1830 Revolution and the "Denunciation of Halle" -- The Berliner Politisches Wochenblatt and the Cologne Controversy -- 3 The Failure of Reform -- The Failure of Reform in Church Governance and Politics before 1848 -- Bethmann-Hollweg and the Burgfrieden -- The Stillborn United Diet -- 4 Opposition to Revolution as Cultural Warfare -- Locating the Prussian Revolution in German and Transnational Contexts -- Initial Awakened Responses to the Revolution -- The Use and Abuse of Culture -- Premodern and Modern Responses of the Awakened by July 1848 -- The Camarilla -- The Octroyed Constitution of 1848 -- 5 Church Renewal -- The Wittenberg Church Congress of 1848 and the Foundation of the Internal Mission -- Selected Constitutional Changes in the Role of the Church(es) -- 6 The Debilitating Successes of Ständisch Structural Changes -- The Gemeindeordnung Controversy -- Organizing the First Chamber, Part I (1848 and 1850) -- From the Erfurt Union to the Olmütz Agreement.

The Provincial Estates and the Foundation of the Preußisches Wochenblatt -- Foundational Principles of the Wochenblatt -- Revising the First Chamber, Part II -- 7 The Rhetorical War over the Crimean War -- Framing the Crimean War -- Realism and Idealism in 19th-Century Prussia? -- Keeping the Dogs of War Leashed -- The Centrality and Fragility of the Holy Alliance -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Unpublished Primary Sources -- Printed Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index.

David L. Ellis analyzes the connections between political conservatism and Prussia's neo-Pietist religious revival, especially in Brandenburg and Pomerania, in the years surrounding the revolution of 1848.

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