Germany and the Confessional Divide : : Religious Tensions and Political Culture, 1871-1989 /

Germany and the Confessional Divide : : Religious Tensions and Political Culture, 1871-1989 / / ed. by Mark Edward Ruff, Thomas Großbölting.

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 a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021
MitwirkendeR:
Bloch, Brandon,
Bock, Florian,
Brunner, Benedikt,
Chappel, James,
Falter, Jürgen,
Großbölting, Thomas,
Kracht, Klaus Große,
Kösters, Christoph,
Lepp, Claudia,
Mitchell, Maria,
Ruff, Mark Edward,
Zalar, Jeffrey T.,
Ziemann, Benjamin,
HerausgeberIn:
Großbölting, Thomas,
Ruff, Mark Edward,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (438 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 The Kulturkampf and Catholic Identity
  • Chapter 2 “Time to Close Ranks”: The Catholic Kulturfront during the Weimar Republic
  • Chapter 3 The Revolution of 1918/19: A Traumatic Experience for German Protestantism
  • Chapter 4 The Confessional Divide in Voting Behavior
  • Chapter 5 The Fascist Origins of German Ecumenism
  • Chapter 6 Conversion as a Confessional Irritant: Examples from the Third Reich
  • Chapter 7 Imperfect Interconfessionalism: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Early Christian Democracy
  • Chapter 8 Importing Controversy: The Martin Luther Film of 1953 and Confessional Tensions
  • Chapter 9 In the Presence of Absence: Transformations of the Confessional Divide in West Germany after the Holocaust
  • Chapter 10 A Tense Triangle: The Protestant Church, the Catholic Church, and the SED State
  • Chapter 11 A Minority between Confession and Politics: Catholicism in the Soviet Zone of Occupation and the GDR (1945–90)
  • Chapter 12 The Churches and Changes in Missionary Work: Biconfessionalism and Developmental Aid to the “Third World” since the 1960s
  • Chapter 13 Deconfessionalization after 1945: Protestants and Catholics, Jews and Muslims as Actors within the Religious Sphere of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • Conclusion Closing Reflections
  • Index

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