On the Wrong Side of History

IF 0.4 0 RELIGION Journal of Religion in Europe Pub Date : 2022-07-07 DOI:10.1163/18748929-bja10065
Richard Schaefer
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This article investigates an episode of anti-Catholic polemic in the late eighteenth century in Germany. It shows how fear over the influence of “crypto-Catholics” masquerading as Protestants and exponents of Enlightenment triggered the conceptualization of “Catholicism” as a social and cultural force beyond Church membership. It shows how Friedrich Nicolai played a leading role in suggesting that Catholics posed a distinct threat to the Enlightenment and the progressive achievements of the last few decades. Guided by Reinhart Koselleck’s insights into the temporalization of fundamental concepts, this article shows how the conceptualization of Catholicism was part of the larger attempt to navigate the dissolution of feudal society. It argues that placing Catholics on the wrong side of history was thus generative of the modern historical regime.
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站在历史错误的一边
这篇文章调查了18世纪晚期德国反天主教的一场论战。它展示了对伪装成新教徒和启蒙运动倡导者的“神秘天主教徒”的影响的恐惧如何引发了“天主教”作为教会成员之外的社会和文化力量的概念化。它展示了弗里德里希·尼古拉是如何在暗示天主教徒对启蒙运动和过去几十年的进步成就构成明显威胁方面发挥主导作用的。在莱因哈特·科塞莱克(Reinhart Koselleck)对基本概念的时间化的见解的指导下,本文展示了天主教的概念化如何成为引导封建社会解体的更大尝试的一部分。它认为,将天主教徒置于历史的错误一边是现代历史制度的产物。
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期刊介绍: The peer-reviewed Journal of Religion in Europe (JRE) provides a forum for multi-disciplinary research into the complex dynamics of religious discourses and practices in Europe, both historically and contemporary. The Journal’s underlying idea is that religion in Europe is characterized by a variety of pluralisms. There is a pluralism of religious communities that actively engage with one another; there exists a pluralism of societal systems, such as nation, law, politics, economy, science, and art, all of them interacting with religious systems; finally, in a pluralism of scholarly discourses religious studies, legal studies, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology are addressing the religious dynamics involved.
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