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Author | : Mark Edward Ruff |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2021-12-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1800730888 |
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From German unification in 1871 through the early 1960s, confessional tensions between Catholics and Protestants were a source of deep division in German society. Engaging this period of historic strife, Germany and the Confessional Divide focuses on three traumatic episodes: the Kulturkampf waged against the Catholic Church in the 1870s, the collapse of the Hohenzollern monarchy and state-supported Protestantism after World War I, and the Nazi persecution of the churches. It argues that memories of these traumatic experiences regularly reignited confessional tensions. Only as German society became increasingly secular did these memories fade and tensions ease.
Author | : Todd H. Weir |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2014-04-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107041562 |
Download Secularism and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Germany Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book explores the culture, politics, and ideas of the nineteenth-century German secularist movements of Free Religion, Freethought, Ethical Culture, and Monism. In it, Todd H. Weir argues that although secularists challenged church establishment and conservative orthodoxy, they were subjected to the forces of religious competition.
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Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 2010 |
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Download That All May be One? Church Unity, Luther Memory, and Ideas of the German Nation, 1817-1883 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The early nineteenth century was a period in which the German confessional divide increasingly became a national-political problem. After the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire (1806) and the Wars of Liberation (1813-1815), Germans became consumed with how to build a nation. Religion was still a salient manifestation of German identity and difference in the nineteenth century, and the confessional divide between Catholics and Protestants remained the most significant impediment to German national unity. Bridging the confessional divide was essential to realizing national unity, but one could only address the separation of the confessions by directly confronting, or at least thinking around, memories of Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation. This dissertation examines how proponents of church unity used and abused memories of Luther and the Reformation to imagine German confessional and national unity from 1817 through 1883. It employs the insights and methods of collective memory research to read the sermons and speeches, pamphlets and poems, histories and hagiographies produced by ecumenical clergy and laity to commemorate Luther and the Reformation, and to understand how efforts toward church unity informed contemporary ideas of German confessional and national identity and unity. Histories of nineteenth-century German society, culture, and politics have been predicated on the ostensible strength of the confessional divide. This dissertation, however, looks at nineteenth-century German history, and the history of nineteenth-century German nationalism in particular, from an interconfessional perspective--one that acknowledges the interaction and overlapping histories of German Catholics and Protestants rather than treating each group separately. Recent histories of the relationship between German religion and nationalism have considered how confessional alterity was used to construct confessionally and racially-exclusive ideas of the German nation. This dissertation complements those histories by revealing how notions of confessional unity, rather than difference, were employed in the construction of the German nation. As such, the history of ecumenism in nineteenth-century Germany represents an alternative history of German nationalism; one that imagined a German nation through a reunion of the separated confessions, rather than on the basis of iron and blood.
Author | : Derek Hastings |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199843457 |
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"Derek Hastings illuminates an important and largely overlooked aspect of Nazi history, revealing National Socialism's close, early ties with Catholicism in the years immediately after World War I, when the movement first emerged."--Jacket.
Author | : Carina L. Johnson |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2017-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1785335413 |
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Modern religious identities are rooted in collective memories that are constantly made and remade across generations. How do these mutations of memory distort our picture of historical change and the ways that historical actors perceive it? Can one give voice to those whom history has forgotten? The essays collected here examine the formation of religious identities during the Reformation in Germany through case studies of remembering and forgetting—instances in which patterns and practices of religious plurality were excised from historical memory. By tracing their ramifications through the centuries, Archeologies of Confession carefully reconstructs the often surprising histories of plurality that have otherwise been lost or obscured.
Author | : Arthur Stuart Duncan-Jones |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Religion |
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Download The Struggle for Religious Freedom in Germany Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Todd H. Weir |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2014-04-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139867903 |
Download Secularism and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Germany Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Negotiating the boundaries of the secular and of the religious is a core aspect of modern experience. In mid-nineteenth-century Germany, secularism emerged to oppose church establishment, conservative orthodoxy, and national division between Catholics, Protestants, and Jews. Yet, as historian Todd H. Weir argues in this provocative book, early secularism was not the opposite of religion. It developed in the rationalist dissent of Free Religion and, even as secularism took more atheistic forms in Freethought and Monism, it was subject to the forces of the confessional system it sought to dismantle. Similar to its religious competitors, it elaborated a clear worldview, sustained social milieus, and was integrated into the political system. Secularism was, in many ways, Germany's fourth confession. While challenging assumptions about the causes and course of the Kulturkampf and modern antisemitism, this study casts new light on the history of popular science, radical politics, and social reform.
Author | : Stan M. Landry |
Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2014-02-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 081565250X |
Download Ecumenism, Memory, and German Nationalism, 1817-1917 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Explores the relationship among the German confessional divide, collective memories of religion, and the construction of German national identity and difference. It argues that nineteenth-century proponents of church unity used and abused memories of Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation to espouse German religious unity, which would then serve as a catalyst for German national unification.
Author | : Thomas Großbölting |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2016-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1785332791 |
Download Losing Heaven Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
As the birthplace of the Reformation, Germany has been the site of some of the most significant moments in the history of European Christianity. Today, however, its religious landscape is one that would scarcely be recognizable to earlier generations. This groundbreaking survey of German postwar religious life depicts a profoundly changed society: congregations shrink, private piety is on the wane, and public life has almost entirely shed its Christian character, yet there remains a booming market for syncretistic and individualistic forms of “popular religion.” Losing Heaven insightfully recounts these dramatic shifts and explains their consequences for German religious communities and the polity as a whole.
Author | : Julius Rieger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1944 |
Genre | : Religion |
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