| Description |
xvi, 294 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Positive Christianity: The Doctrine of the Time of Struggle -- 2. Above the Confessions: Bridging the Religious Divide -- 3. Blood and Soil: The Paganist Ambivalence -- 4. National Renewal: Religion and the New Germany -- 5. Completing the Reformation: The Protestant Reich Church -- 6. Public Need before Private Greed: Building the People's Community -- 7. Gottglaubig: Assent of the anti-Christians? -- 8. The Holy Reich: Conclusion |
| 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 |
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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."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-284) and index |
| Subject |
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei -- History.
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National socialism and religion.
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Christianity and antisemitism.
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| SUBJECT |
Germany -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054640
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Germany -- Church history -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054480
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| Genre/Form |
Church history.
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| LC no. |
2002031341 |
| ISBN |
0521823714 |
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