German Nationalism and Religious Conflict: Culture, Ideology, Politics, 1870-1914The German Empire of 1871, although unified politically, remained deeply divided along religious lines. In German Nationalism and Religious Conflict, Helmut Walser Smith offers the first social, cultural, and political history of this division. He argues that Protestants and Catholics lived in different worlds, separated by an invisible boundary of culture, defined as a community of meaning. As these worlds came into contact, they also came into