| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 294 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-284) and index. |
| Summary |
"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. He demonstrates that many participants in the Nazi movement believed that the contours of their ideology were based on a Christian understanding of Germany's ills and their cure. A program usually regarded as secular in inspiration - the creation of a racialist "peoples' community" embracing antisemitism, antiliberalism, and anti-Marxism - was, for these Nazis, conceived in explicitly Christian terms. His examination centers on the concept of "positive Christianity," a religion espoused by many members of the party leadership. He also explores the struggle the "positive Christians" waged with the party's paganists - those who rejected Christianity in toto as foreign and corrupting - and demonstrates that this was a conflict not just over religion, but over the very meaning of Nazi ideology itself."--Jacket. |
| Contents |
Positive Christianity: the doctrine of the time of struggle -- Above the confessions: bridging the religious divide -- Blood and soil: the paganist ambivalence -- National renewal: religion and the new Germany -- Completing the Reformation: the Protestant Reich Church -- Public need before private greed: building the people's community -- Gottgläubig: assent of the anti-Christians? -- The holy Reich: conclusion. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
National socialism and religion.
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National socialism and religion. |
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Christianity and antisemitism.
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Christianity and antisemitism. |
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Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.
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Germany. |
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Politics and government. |
| Chronological Term |
1933-1945 |
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Germany -- Church history -- 20th century.
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Church history. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Church history.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Steigmann-Gall, Richard. Holy Reich. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003 0521823714 (DLC) 2002031341 (OCoLC)51568632 |
| ISBN |
9781461938309 (electronic book) |
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1461938309 (electronic book) |
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9780511818103 (electronic book) |
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0511818106 (electronic book) |
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0521823714 |
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9780521823715 |
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