ELISABETH KRIMMER is Professor of German at the University of California, Davis. PATRICIA ANNE SIMPSON is Professor of German at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

[P]rovides a new and refreshing perspective on the relation between religion and reason as it evolved during the German Enlightenment. . . . [C]overs a vast amount of ground and incorporates many essays that are relevant beyond Enlightenment studies alone . . . . Taken as a whole, it presents many literary and philosophical perspectives that promote new understandings of eighteenth century concepts . . . .

• Introduction"Über Glaubenssachen filosofieren": Wieland on Reason and ReligionPersonal Impersonalism in Herder's Conception of the AfterlifeClever Priests and the Missions of Moses and Schiller: From Monotheism to the Aesthetic Civilization of the Individual"Then Say What Your Religion Is": Goethe, Religion, and FaustClassicism and Secular Humanism: The Sanctification of Die Zauberflöte in Goethe's "Novelle"Saint Mary's Two Bodies: Religion and Enlightenment in KleistCatholic Conversion and the End of Enlightenment in Religious and Literary DiscoursesSacred Maternity and Secular Sons: Hölderlin's Madonna as MuseLeibniz Reception around 1800: Monadic Vitalism and Aesthetic Harmony"The Magic Formula We All Seek": Spinoza + Fichte = xNotes on the ContributorsIndex

ELISABETH KRIMMER is Professor of German at the University of California, Davis. PATRICIA ANNE SIMPSON is Professor of German at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

[P]rovides a new and refreshing perspective on the relation between religion and reason as it evolved during the German Enlightenment. . . . [C]overs a vast amount of ground and incorporates many essays that are relevant beyond Enlightenment studies alone . . . . Taken as a whole, it presents many literary and philosophical perspectives that promote new understandings of eighteenth century concepts . . . .

• Introduction"Über Glaubenssachen filosofieren": Wieland on Reason and ReligionPersonal Impersonalism in Herder's Conception of the AfterlifeClever Priests and the Missions of Moses and Schiller: From Monotheism to the Aesthetic Civilization of the Individual"Then Say What Your Religion Is": Goethe, Religion, and FaustClassicism and Secular Humanism: The Sanctification of Die Zauberflöte in Goethe's "Novelle"Saint Mary's Two Bodies: Religion and Enlightenment in KleistCatholic Conversion and the End of Enlightenment in Religious and Literary DiscoursesSacred Maternity and Secular Sons: Hölderlin's Madonna as MuseLeibniz Reception around 1800: Monadic Vitalism and Aesthetic Harmony"The Magic Formula We All Seek": Spinoza + Fichte = xNotes on the ContributorsIndex

ELISABETH KRIMMER is Professor of German at the University of California, Davis. PATRICIA ANNE SIMPSON is Professor of German at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

[P]rovides a new and refreshing perspective on the relation between religion and reason as it evolved during the German Enlightenment. . . . [C]overs a vast amount of ground and incorporates many essays that are relevant beyond Enlightenment studies alone . . . . Taken as a whole, it presents many literary and philosophical perspectives that promote new understandings of eighteenth century concepts . . . .

• Introduction"Über Glaubenssachen filosofieren": Wieland on Reason and ReligionPersonal Impersonalism in Herder's Conception of the AfterlifeClever Priests and the Missions of Moses and Schiller: From Monotheism to the Aesthetic Civilization of the Individual"Then Say What Your Religion Is": Goethe, Religion, and FaustClassicism and Secular Humanism: The Sanctification of Die Zauberflöte in Goethe's "Novelle"Saint Mary's Two Bodies: Religion and Enlightenment in KleistCatholic Conversion and the End of Enlightenment in Religious and Literary DiscoursesSacred Maternity and Secular Sons: Hölderlin's Madonna as MuseLeibniz Reception around 1800: Monadic Vitalism and Aesthetic Harmony"The Magic Formula We All Seek": Spinoza + Fichte = xNotes on the ContributorsIndex