Research output per year
Research output per year
Prof. Dr.
Oude Boteringestraat38, Gebouw 1124, ruimte 0145
9712 GK Groningen
Netherlands
My research has illuminated different dimensions of the encounter between secularism and religion in modern Europe. My monograph Secularism and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Germany: The Rise of the Fourth Confession, Cambridge UP, 2014 (winner of the Jacques Barzun Prize for Cultural History) argued for the insertion of secularism into German religious history, not just as a force acting against the existing Christian confessions, but as a confessional force in its own right.
Recently, I have been pushing this work into the twentieth century, demonstrating that the interwar period marked a second “culture war” in German history. My second monograph investigates secularism and socialism of Germany between 1890 and 1933. As as examing the role of secularism in sociailst culture, it shows that antisecularism was a key element in the organization and radicalization of the political right in the late Weimar Republic.
A second direction of recent work is the transnational history of religion and politics in the interwar period. I initiated and now convene an international research network of ca. 30 scholars on the “Socialism and Religion in the Twentieth Century”, which held its first conference in June 2015 on interwar religious politics. A follow-up conference on religion and socialism in the long 1960s was held in Groningen in June 2017, and a conference on apologetics and politics was convened wtih the support of the British Academy in September 2017.
A third area of research interest is the history of Weltanschauung/worldview in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In spring 2017, I gave a Tedx Talk on the subject.
Since coming to Groningen, I have begun to develop a series of collaborations with NGOs and university partners on the relationship of heritage and interreligious dialogue.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Book › Academic
Andrew Irving (Daily supervisor), Todd Weir (Supervisor) & Victoria Harrison (Co-supervisor)
Activity: Examination, teaching and supervision › Supervision and examination of PhD students of the UG › Academic
Todd Weir (Consultant)
Activity: External assignment › Consultancy › Academic
Todd Weir (Consultant)
Activity: External assignment › Consultancy › Professional
Todd Weir (Speaker)
Activity: Talk and presentation › Academic presentation › Academic
Andrew Irving (Daily supervisor) & Todd Weir (Supervisor)
Activity: Examination, teaching and supervision › Supervision and examination of PhD students of the UG › Academic
21/11/2022
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities › Professional
20/01/2021
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment › Popular
Andrew James McGregor Irving, Mathilde van Dijk & Todd Hagman Weir
11/01/2021
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities › Popular
Weir, Todd (Recipient), 1-Feb-2022
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively › Academic
Weir, Todd (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Election to learned society › Academic
Weir, Todd (Recipient), Feb-2012
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively › Academic
Weir, Todd (Recipient), Jul-2012
Prize: Election to learned society › Academic