UID:
edocfu_9959237442902883
Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 294 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-139-88307-0
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1-107-38582-2
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1-107-38392-7
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1-107-39035-4
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1-107-39876-2
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1-107-38743-4
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0-511-81810-6
Content:
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 'people's 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 not just a conflict over religion, but over the very meaning of Nazi ideology itself.
Note:
First paperback edition 2004.
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Reprinted 2005.
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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.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-60352-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-82371-4
Language:
English
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