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Catholicism, Popular Culture, and the Arts in Germany, 1880-1933
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Catholicism, Popular Culture, and the Arts in Germany, 1880-1933. By Margaret Stieg Dalton. (Notre Dame, Indiana: Notre Dame University Press. 2005. Pp. xi, 378. $35.00 paperback.)
"In the absence of anything better, kitsch with a Catholic gloss passed for culture....Catholic culture was too Catholic even for most Catholics" (p. 233). Such is Margaret Stieg Dalton's devastating commentary on fifty years of struggle by German Catholic elites to create an alternative to materialist, individualist, and secular modernity. Dalton's diligently researched study thus raises major questions about the relationship between religion and the arts in general, and the possibilities and limits of …
