The Secular Beyond: Free Religious Dissent and Debates over the Afterlife in Nineteenth-Century Germany

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. Howeve...

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Main Author: Weir, Todd (Author)
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2008
In: Church history
Year: 2008, Volume: 77, Issue: 3, Pages: 629-658
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