In God's Name : : Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth Century / / ed. by Omer Bartov, Phyllis Mack.

• MitwirkendeR: Auron, Yair,; Baigell, Matthew,; Bartov, Omer,; Bergen, Doris L.,; Ericksen, Robert P.,; Govrin, Michal,; Greenberg, Gershon,; Griech-Polelle, Beth,; Heschel, Susannah,; Kellenbach, Katharina von,; Kershaw, Ian,; Lespinay, Charles de,; Longman, Timothy,; Mack, Phyllis,; Mandel, Maud,; Sarafian, Ara,; Sells, Michael,; Sheetz-Nguyen, Jessica A.,; Suny, Ronald Grigor,; Vermes, Gabor,
• HerausgeberIn: Bartov, Omer,; Mack, Phyllis,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: War and Genocide ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)

Despite the widespread trends of secularization in the 20th century, religion has played an important role in several outbreaks of genocide since the First World War. And yet, not many scholars have looked either at the religious aspects of modern genocide, or at the manner in which religion has taken a position on mass killing. This collection of essays addresses this hiatus by examining the intersection between religion and state-organized murder in the cases of the Armenian, Jewish, Rwandan, and Bosnian genocides. Rather than a comprehensive overview, it offers a series of descrete, yet closely related case studies, that shed light on three fundamental aspects of this issue: the use of religion to legitimize and motivate genocide; the potential of religious faith to encourage physical and spiritual resistance to mass murder; and finally, the role of religion in coming to terms with the legacy of atrocity.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I – The Perpetrators: Theology and Practice -- Chapter 1 Religion, Ethnicity, and Nationalism: Armenians, Turks, and the End of the Ottoman Empire -- Chapter 2 Genocide, Religion, and Gerhard Kittel: Protestant Theologians Face the Third Reich -- Chapter 3 When Jesus Was an Aryan: The Protestant Church and Antisemitic Propaganda -- Chapter 4 A Pure Conscience Is Good Enough: Bishop von Galen and Resistance to Nazism -- Chapter 5 Between God and Hitler: German Military Chaplains and the Crimes of the Third Reich -- Chapter 6 Christian Churches and Genocide in Rwanda -- Chapter 7 The Churches and the Genocide in the East African Great Lakes Region -- Chapter 8 Kosovo Mythology and the Bosnian Genocide -- II. Survival: Rescuers and Victims -- Chapter 9 The Absorption of Armenian Women and Children into Muslim Households As a Structural Component of the Armenian Genocide -- Chapter 10 Transcending Boundaries: Hungarian Roman Catholic Religious Women and the “Persecuted Ones” -- Chapter 11 Denial and Defiance in the Work of Rabbi Regina Jonas -- Chapter 12 A Personal Account -- III. Aftermath: Politics, Faith, and Representation -- Chapter 13 Zionist and Israeli Attitudes Toward the Armenian Genocide -- Chapter 14 Faith, Religious Practices, and Genocide: Armenians and Jews in France following World War I and II -- Chapter 15 Orthodox Jewish Thought in the Wake of the Holocaust: Tamim Pa’alo of 1947 -- Chapter 16 Jewish-American Artists and the Holocaust: The Responses of Two Generations -- Chapter 17 The Journey to Poland -- AFTERTHOUGHT Some Reflections on Genocide, Religion, and Modernity -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX