Todd Weir is associate professor in History of Christianity and Modern Culture and Director of the Centre for Religion and Heritage at the University of Groningen. His Secularism and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Germany: The Rise of the Fourth Confession won the 2016 Jacques Barzun Prize for Cultural History. He is currently completing a monograph on "Secularism and Socialism in Germany 1890 to 1933." His next major research project will be a transnational history of the term worldview/Weltanschauung from 1790 to the present.