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New Perspectives on the History of Liberalism and Freethought

Herausgegeben von: Liberas

ISSN: 2751-5311

2751-532X

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‘New Perspectives on the History of Liberalism and Freethought’ is a peer-reviewed open access series devoted to the results of international scientific workshops and colloquia organised by Liberas, the central archive and documentation centre of the liberal movement in Belgium/Flanders https://www.liberas.eu/en/. As a research institute, Liberas wishes to stimulate research into the 19^th- and 20th-century history of liberalism and freethought in a broad sense, in Belgium and abroad.

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Buch Open Access 2019

The Civilising Offensive

Social and Educational Reform in 19th-century Belgium

Christoph De Spiegeleer

Band 1 in dieser Reihe

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"This volume offers a multifaceted selection of studies on 19^th-century Belgian reformers and initiatives they instigated to solve the ‘social question’ by ‘civilising’ and moralising the lower classes. Around 1850 Belgium was continental Europe’s most heavily industrialised state. From the mid-century until the Belle Époque many international social reform associations were based in Belgium, as well as their main international actors. This book aims to place the history of social, moral and educational reform in Belgium during the long 19^th century within a broader European perspective. This collection of contributions by both young and established scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds not only fills some gaps in Belgian historiography, but also offers a better understanding of broad epochal processes such as the bourgeois civilising offensive, the expansion of educational action and the historical growth of welfare states.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110581546
ISBN:: 9783110581546
ISBN:: 9783110579178
ISBN:: 9783110578423
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Neuere Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Regionale und nationale Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Europa
Fachgebiet:: Westeuropa
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Sozialgeschichte
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch Open Access 2024

The Non-Religious and the State

Seculars crafting their lives in different frameworks from the Age of Revolution to the Current Day

Jeffrey Tyssens, Niels De Nutte, Stefan Schröder, Liberas, CAVA

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As the number of the non-affiliated and religiously indifferent is on the rise, this book adds a hitherto absent historical dimension to the field of secular studies. It shows a variety of ways in which the non-religious at large – be it organizations, networks or even committed individuals – impact upon the interface between the state and the religious or the non-religious. To what specific legal statuses have these processes led? What elements were taken into consideration when making these decisions? Who opted for a recognition of a non-confessional lifestance and why? Conversely, who opted for a wall of separation and why? Are things that clear cut? Doesn’t the variety of choices and frameworks offer a more varied spectrum? What continuities and discontinuities are to be observed in the history of seculars and their organizations? These patterns, divergent and entangled, are developed and explained within the broader conception of ‘multiple secularisms’.

This book adds a hitherto absent historical dimension to the field of secular studies, and shows a variety of ways in which the non-religious at large – be it organizations, networks or even committed individuals – impact upon the interface between the state and the religious or the non-religious.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783111337982
ISBN:: 9783111337982
ISBN:: 9783111337012
ISBN:: 9783111338354
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Neuere Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Regionale und nationale Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Europa
Fachgebiet:: Westeuropa
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Ideologien und politische Ideen
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch Open Access 2022

Demystifying the Sacred

Blasphemy and Violence from the French Revolution to Today

Eveline G. Bouwers, David Nash, Liberas

Band 2 in dieser Reihe

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Demystifying the Sacred: Blasphemy and Violence from the French Revolution to Today offers a much-needed analysis of a subject that historians have largely ignored, yet that has considerable relevance for today’s world: the powerful connection that exists between offences against the sacred and different forms of violence. Drawing on cases from revolutionary France to the Russia of Vladimir Putin, the international authors probe the nature and agency of local blasphemy accusations, the historical and legal framework in which they were expressed and the violence, both physical and symbolic, accompanying them. In doing so, the volume reveals how cultures of blasphemy, and related acts of heresy, apostasy and sacrilege, were a companion to or acted as a trigger for physical action but also a form of how violence was experienced. More generally, it shows the importance of religious sensibilities in modern society and the violent potential contained in criticism or ridicule of the sacred and secular alike.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110713091
ISBN:: 9783110713091
ISBN:: 9783110713145
ISBN:: 9783110713022
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Neuere Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Regionale und nationale Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Europa
Fachgebiet:: Westeuropa
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Sozialgeschichte
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg