The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945–1980

The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945–1980
Author: Mark Edward Ruff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2017-07-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 110812139X

Were Pope Pius XII and the Catholic Church in Germany unduly singled out after 1945 for their conduct during the National Socialist era? Mark Edward Ruff explores the bitter controversies that broke out in the Federal Republic of Germany from 1945 to 1980 over the Catholic Church's relationship to the Nazis. He explores why these cultural wars consumed such energy, dominated headlines, triggered lawsuits and required the intervention of foreign ministries. He argues that the controversies over the church's relationship to National Socialism were frequently surrogates for conflicts over how the church was to position itself in modern society - in politics, international relations and the media. More often than not, these exchanges centered on problems perceived as arising from the postwar political ascendancy of Roman Catholics and the integration of Catholic citizens into the societal mainstream.

The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945--1980

The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945--1980
Author: Mark Edward Ruff
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2017
Genre: HISTORY
ISBN: 9781108123198

"Were Pope Pius XII and the Catholic Church in Germany unduly singled out after 1945 for their conduct during the National Socialist era? Mark Edward Ruff explores the bitter controversies that broke out in the Federal Republic of Germany from 1945 to 1980 over the Catholic Church's relationship to the Nazis. He explores why these cultural wars consumed such energy, dominated headlines, triggered lawsuits and required the intervention of foreign ministries. He argues that the controversies over the church's relationship to National Socialism were frequently surrogates for conflicts over how the church was to position itself in modern society--in politics, international relations and the media. More often than not, these exchanges centered on problems perceived as arising from the postwar political ascendancy of Roman Catholics and the integration of Catholic citizens into the societal mainstream"--Provided by publisher.

The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945-1980

The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945-1980
Author: Mark Edward Ruff
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2017-07-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107190665

Mark Edward Ruff re-examines the bitter controversies in the Federal Republic of Germany over the Catholic Church's relationship to the Nazis.

Germany and the Confessional Divide

Germany and the Confessional Divide
Author: Mark Edward Ruff
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total 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.

Disruptive Power

Disruptive Power
Author: Michael E. O'Sullivan
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2018-11-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1487517939

Disruptive Power examines a surprising revival of faith in Catholic miracles in Germany from the 1920s to the 1960s. The book follows the dramatic stigmata of Therese Neumann of Konnersreuth and her powerful circle of followers that included theologians, Cardinals, politicians, journalists, monarchists, anti-fascists, and everyday pilgrims. Disruptive Power explores how this and other similar groups negotiated the precariousness of the Weimar Republic, the repression of the Third Reich, and the dynamic early years of the Federal Republic. Analyzing a network of rebellious traditionalists, O’Sullivan illustrates the divisions that characterized the German Catholic minority as they endured the tumultuous era of the world wars. Analyzing material from archives in Germany and the United States, Michael E. O’Sullivan investigates the unsanctioned but very popular visions in several rural towns after World War II, providing micro-histories that illuminate the impact of mystical faith on religiosity, politics, and gender norms.

Jewish Emancipation

Jewish Emancipation
Author: David Sorkin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 526
Release: 2019-09-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691164940

Sorkin seeks to reorient Jewish history by offering the first comprehensive account in any language of the process by which Jews became citizens with civil and political rights in the modern world.

German Catholicism at War, 1939-1945

German Catholicism at War, 1939-1945
Author: Thomas Brodie
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2018-10-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 019256188X

German Catholicism at War explores the mentalities and experiences of German Catholics during the Second World War. Taking the German Home Front, and most specifically, the Rhineland and Westphalia, as its core focus German Catholicism at War examines Catholics' responses to developments in the war, their complex relationships with the Nazi regime, and their religious practices. Drawing on a wide range of source materials stretching from personal letters and diaries to pastoral letters and Gestapo reports, Thomas Brodie breaks new ground in our understanding of the Catholic community in Germany during the Second World War.

The Cold War: a Very Short Introduction

The Cold War: a Very Short Introduction
Author: Robert J. McMahon
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2021-02-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0198859546

Vividly written and based on up-to-date scholarship, this title provides an interpretive overview of the international history of the Cold War.

Theology and World Politics

Theology and World Politics
Author: Vassilios Paipais
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2020-03-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030376028

Situated within the wider post-secular turn in politics and international relations, this volume focuses not on religion per se, but rather explicitly on theology. Contributions to this collection highlight the political theological foundations of international theory and world politics, recasting theology and politics as symbiotic discourses with all the risks, promises and open questions this relation may involve. The overarching claim the book makes is that all politics has theology embedded in it, both in the genealogical sense of carrying ineradicable traces of rival theological traditions, and also in the more ontological sense of being enacted by alternative configurations of the theologico-political. The book is unique in bringing together a diverse group of scholars, spanning knowledge areas as varied as IR, political theory, philosophy, theology, and history to investigate the complex interconnections between theology and world politics. It will be of interest to students and scholars of political theory, international relations, intellectual history, and political theology.