Bruce Berglund is Professor of History and Director of the Honors Program at Calvin College.

"A scholar of religion in Eastern Europe, Berglund digs deeply into the personal stories of individuals, famous and less famous, involved with state building and cultural production in the 1920s. We meet a group of politicians, intellectuals, architects, writers, and activists whose public associations with nationalism and secularism hid profound religious inclinations that influenced their actions and thinking. This book is a pleasure to read and a rare opportunity to grasp an intellectual moment in history so intimately. Berglund uses his wealth of sources to nuance his interpretations in ways that make the book and its arguments of interest to all scholars of interwar central European culture and politics."

• Part One Three Portraits of the Modern Believer Chapter One The Philosopher in Search of Truth Imagining a New ReligionThe Spiritual Pastor Care for the Soul of the Nation “She Formed Me” Chapter Two The Architect Creating for the AgesFinding a Path in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna Caught between Prague, Vienna, and LjubljanaThe Professor as Spiritual Mentor Cubists and Monument Builders Chapter Three The Social Worker Longing to Serve Discovering Faith and Vocation Looking to America From Jan Hus to Clean Underwear Building Her House on the Rocks Part Two Czechoslovakia under the Perspective of Eternity Chapter Four The House of Masaryk and the Moral Republic The Philosopher as President The House of Masaryk and Managed Democracy The President’s Conscience A Fortress of the Mighty God Chapter Five The Moral Republic and Its Discontents Dissonant Voices in the Castle Catholic Intellectuals and the “Culture War” Masaryk’s Message Is Our Message Mysterious Stones at the Castle Chapter Six Building Cathedrals in Modern Prague Religious Institutions and Masaryk’s Civil Religion Faith, Truth, and the Culture of the Republic The Blasphemies of Jaroslav Durych A Cathedral for the Modern Nation Chapter Seven The War of the Absolute Convictions of the President-Liberator Reigniting the Culture War T. G. Masaryk—Mortal and Immortal

Bruce Berglund is Professor of History and Director of the Honors Program at Calvin College.

"A scholar of religion in Eastern Europe, Berglund digs deeply into the personal stories of individuals, famous and less famous, involved with state building and cultural production in the 1920s. We meet a group of politicians, intellectuals, architects, writers, and activists whose public associations with nationalism and secularism hid profound religious inclinations that influenced their actions and thinking. This book is a pleasure to read and a rare opportunity to grasp an intellectual moment in history so intimately. Berglund uses his wealth of sources to nuance his interpretations in ways that make the book and its arguments of interest to all scholars of interwar central European culture and politics."

• Part One Three Portraits of the Modern Believer Chapter One The Philosopher in Search of Truth Imagining a New ReligionThe Spiritual Pastor Care for the Soul of the Nation “She Formed Me” Chapter Two The Architect Creating for the AgesFinding a Path in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna Caught between Prague, Vienna, and LjubljanaThe Professor as Spiritual Mentor Cubists and Monument Builders Chapter Three The Social Worker Longing to Serve Discovering Faith and Vocation Looking to America From Jan Hus to Clean Underwear Building Her House on the Rocks Part Two Czechoslovakia under the Perspective of Eternity Chapter Four The House of Masaryk and the Moral Republic The Philosopher as President The House of Masaryk and Managed Democracy The President’s Conscience A Fortress of the Mighty God Chapter Five The Moral Republic and Its Discontents Dissonant Voices in the Castle Catholic Intellectuals and the “Culture War” Masaryk’s Message Is Our Message Mysterious Stones at the Castle Chapter Six Building Cathedrals in Modern Prague Religious Institutions and Masaryk’s Civil Religion Faith, Truth, and the Culture of the Republic The Blasphemies of Jaroslav Durych A Cathedral for the Modern Nation Chapter Seven The War of the Absolute Convictions of the President-Liberator Reigniting the Culture War T. G. Masaryk—Mortal and Immortal

Bruce Berglund is Professor of History and Director of the Honors Program at Calvin College.

"A scholar of religion in Eastern Europe, Berglund digs deeply into the personal stories of individuals, famous and less famous, involved with state building and cultural production in the 1920s. We meet a group of politicians, intellectuals, architects, writers, and activists whose public associations with nationalism and secularism hid profound religious inclinations that influenced their actions and thinking. This book is a pleasure to read and a rare opportunity to grasp an intellectual moment in history so intimately. Berglund uses his wealth of sources to nuance his interpretations in ways that make the book and its arguments of interest to all scholars of interwar central European culture and politics."

• Part One Three Portraits of the Modern Believer Chapter One The Philosopher in Search of Truth Imagining a New ReligionThe Spiritual Pastor Care for the Soul of the Nation “She Formed Me” Chapter Two The Architect Creating for the AgesFinding a Path in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna Caught between Prague, Vienna, and LjubljanaThe Professor as Spiritual Mentor Cubists and Monument Builders Chapter Three The Social Worker Longing to Serve Discovering Faith and Vocation Looking to America From Jan Hus to Clean Underwear Building Her House on the Rocks Part Two Czechoslovakia under the Perspective of Eternity Chapter Four The House of Masaryk and the Moral Republic The Philosopher as President The House of Masaryk and Managed Democracy The President’s Conscience A Fortress of the Mighty God Chapter Five The Moral Republic and Its Discontents Dissonant Voices in the Castle Catholic Intellectuals and the “Culture War” Masaryk’s Message Is Our Message Mysterious Stones at the Castle Chapter Six Building Cathedrals in Modern Prague Religious Institutions and Masaryk’s Civil Religion Faith, Truth, and the Culture of the Republic The Blasphemies of Jaroslav Durych A Cathedral for the Modern Nation Chapter Seven The War of the Absolute Convictions of the President-Liberator Reigniting the Culture War T. G. Masaryk—Mortal and Immortal