"Conservative Revolutionaries"
Title | "Conservative Revolutionaries" PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Thériault |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781571816672 |
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
Title | Losing Heaven PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Großbölting |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2016-10-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1785332791 |
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
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 |
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
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 |
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 |
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
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 |
”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
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 |