Churches and national identity, nationalism-questions
Chapter 1: Nationalism as part of the history of 19th century Christianity
Reading questions:
1. What was the significance of the nationalist principle in Europe at the Congress of Vienna and after it?
2. What were the major events in the development of European Christianity and nationalist issues in the 19th century?
3. How did 19th century nationalism impact the development of the main European states?
Chapter 2: Denominations and nationalism
Reading questions:
1. What was the connection between 19th century secularisation and the denominational differentiation of Christianity?
2. What was the dechristianization, desacralization, and demythologization of Europe in the 19th century?
3. What was the rechristianization, sacralization, and mythologization of Europe in the 19th century?
Chapter 3: Catholicism in France and Italy; Ireland and the Irish diaspora
Reading questions:
1. What was the political and religious development at the Apennine Peninsula during the French Revolution and after it?
2. What significance did Popes Pius IX and Leo XIII have for modern Italian political nationalism?
3. What social and religious problems did Ireland struggle with in the 19th century?
Chapter 4: Christianity and Germany
Reading questions:
1. How important was the Enlightenment for German nationalism in the 19th century?
2. What do you know about the development of nationalism and liberalism in 19th century Germany?
3. What was the Kulturkampf in Germany?
Chapter 5: Christianity in England
Reading questions:
1. How was England impacted by political nationalism in the 18th century?
2. How was England impacted by political nationalism in the 19th century?
3. What was the connection between denominational development and nationalism in 19th century England?
Chapter 6: The dominance of Protestantism in Switzerland and Holland
Reading questions:
1. How did politics in Switzerland develop during the French Revolution, under Napoleon Bonaparte, and after 1815?
2. What was the denominational development in 19th century Switzerland?
3. In what direction did societal and denominational development in the Northern and Southern Netherlands go in the 19th century?
Chapter 7: The crisis of German and French historical universalism and optimism and European nationalism in the late 19th century
Reading questions:
1. How did the historical universalism and optimism of the 19th century influence the development of European nationalism?
2. Did Leopold von Ranke and Johann Gustav Droysen help shift the contemporary approach to the study of history?
3. Was the crisis of German historical universalism also a crisis of its optimism?
4. Was the crisis of French historical universalism also a crisis of its optimism?