The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945

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Cambridge University Press, 21 apr 2003 - 294 pagine
Analyzing the previously unexplored religious views of the Nazi elite, Richard Steigmann-Gall argues against the consensus that Nazism as a whole was either unrelated to Christianity or actively opposed to it. In contrast, Steigmann-Gall demonstrates that many in the Nazi movement believed the contours of their ideology were based on a Christian understanding of Germany's ills and their cure. He also explores the struggle the "positive Christians" waged with the party's paganists and demonstrates that this was not just a conflict over religion, but over the very meaning of Nazi ideology itself. Richard Steigmann-Gall is assistant professor of history at Kent Sate University. He earned his BA and MA at the University of Michigan, and PhD at the University of Toronto. He has earned fellowships and awards from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism in Israel, and the Max-Planck Institut fur Geschichte in Göttingen. His research interests include modern Germany, Fascism, and religion and society in Europe, and he has published articles in Central European History, German History, Social History, and Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte.
 

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Introduction
3
Positive Christianity The Doctrine of the Time of Struggle
15
Above the Confessions Bridging the Religious Divide
53
Blood and Soil The Paganist Ambivalence
88
National Renewal Religion and the New Germany
116
Completing the Reformation The Protestant Reich Church
157
Public Need before Private Greed Building the Peoples Community
192
Gottglaubig Assent of the antiChristians?
220
The Holy Reich Conclusion
263
Primary Sources
270
Secondary Sources
274
Index
287
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Richard Steigmann-Gall is Assistant Professor of History at Kent State University. He has earned fellowships and awards from institutions in Germany, Israel, and Canada, and he has published articles in Central European History, German History, Social History, and Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte.

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