"Conservative Revolutionaries"

Title "Conservative Revolutionaries" PDF eBook
Author Barbara Thériault
Publisher Berghahn Books
Pages 204
Release 2004
Genre History
ISBN 9781571816672

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During the forty years of division, the Protestant and Catholic churches in Germany were the only organizations to retain strong ties and organizational structures: they embodied continuity in a country marked by discontinuity. As such, the churches were both expected to undergo smooth and rapid institutional consolidation and undertake an active role in the public realm of the new eastern German states in the 1990s. Yet critical voices were heard over the West German system of church-state relations and the public role it confers on religious organizations, and critics often expressed the idea that despite all their difficulties, something precious was lost in the collapse of the German democratic republic. Against this backdrop, the author delineates the conflicting conceptions of the Protestant and Catholic churches' public role and pays special attention to the East German model, or what is generally termed the "positive experiences of the GDR and the Wende."

Losing Heaven

Losing Heaven
Title Losing Heaven PDF eBook
Author Thomas Großbölting
Publisher Berghahn Books
Pages 356
Release 2016-10-01
Genre History
ISBN 1785332791

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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.

Germany and the Confessional Divide

Germany and the Confessional Divide
Title Germany and the Confessional Divide PDF eBook
Author Mark Edward Ruff
Publisher Berghahn Books
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.

The Protestant and the Catholic Churches in Germany

The Protestant and the Catholic Churches in Germany
Title The Protestant and the Catholic Churches in Germany PDF eBook
Author United States. Office of Strategic Services. Research and Analysis Branch
Publisher
Pages 28
Release 1944
Genre Germany
ISBN

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Complicity in the Holocaust

Complicity in the Holocaust
Title Complicity in the Holocaust PDF eBook
Author Robert P. Ericksen
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 281
Release 2012-02-05
Genre History
ISBN 110701591X

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In one of the darker aspects of Nazi Germany, churches and universities - generally respected institutions - grew to accept and support Nazi ideology. Complicity in the Holocaust describes how the state's intellectual and spiritual leaders enthusiastically partnered with Hitler's regime, becoming active participants in the persecution of Jews, effectively giving Germans permission to participate in the Nazi regime. Ericksen also examines Germany's deeply flawed yet successful postwar policy of denazification in these institutions.

The Catholic Church And Nazi Germany

The Catholic Church And Nazi Germany
Title The Catholic Church And Nazi Germany PDF eBook
Author Guenter Lewy
Publisher Da Capo Press
Pages 450
Release 2009-09-09
Genre History
ISBN 0786751614

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”The subject matter of this book is controversial,” Guenter Lewy states plainly in his preface. To show the German Catholic Church’s congeniality with some of the goals of National Socialism and its gradual entrapment in Nazi policies and programs, Lewy describes the episcopate’s support of Hitler’s expansionist policies and its failures to speak out on the persecution of the Jews. To this tragic history Lewy brings new focus and research, illuminating one of the darkest corners of our century with scholarship and intellectual honesty in a riveting, and often painful, narrative.

The East German State and the Catholic Church, 1945-1989

The East German State and the Catholic Church, 1945-1989
Title The East German State and the Catholic Church, 1945-1989 PDF eBook
Author Schaefer
Publisher Berghahn Books
Pages 324
Release 2010-10-12
Genre History
ISBN 9781845458522

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