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Title Religion, ethnonationalism, and antisemitism in the era of the two world wars / edited by Kevin P. Spicer and Rebecca Carter-Chand
Published Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 405 pages) : illustrations
Series McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. Series two ; 92
McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. Series two ; 92.
Contents Adopting the Swastika: George E. Deatherage and the American Nationalist Confederation, 1937-1942 / Charles Gallagher, SJ -- Transnational Antisemitic Networks and Political Christianity: The Catholic Participation in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion / Nina Valbousquet -- Julius Evola and the "Jewish Problem" in Axis Europe: Race, Religion, and Antisemitism / Peter Staudenmaier -- German Catholicism's Lost Opportunity to Confront Antisemitism before the Machtergreifung / Kevin P. Spicer, CSC -- The Fate of John's Gospel during the Third Reich / Susannah Heschel and Shannon Quigley -- Nationalism and Religious Bonds: Transatlantic Religious Communities in Nazi Germany and the United States / Rebecca Carter-Chand -- "You often end up asking yourself, could there be a great secret group of Jews behind it all?": Antisemitism in the Finnish Lutheran Church after the First World War / Paavo Ahonen and Kirsi Stjerna -- "The Converts Were Just Delighted": Dynamics of Religious Conversion as a Tool of Genocide in the Independent State of Croatia / Danijel Matijević -- Learning as a Space of Protection: The Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Nazi Berlin / Sara Han -- Ethnonationalism as a Theological Crisis: Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky and the Greek Catholic Church in Western Ukraine, 1923-1944 / Kateryna Budz and Andrew Kloes -- To Murder or Save Thy Neighbour? Romanian Orthodox Clergymen and Jews during the Holocaust (1941-1945) / Ionuţ Biliuţă -- Racist, Brutal, and Ethnotheist: A Conservative Christian View of Nazism in the Korntal Brethren / Samuel Koehne -- Ecumenical Protestant Responses to the Rise of Nazism, Fascism, and Antisemitism during the 1920s and 1930s / Victoria J. Barnett
Summary "In the wake of the devastating First World War, leaders of the victorious powers reconfigured the European continent, resulting in new understandings of nation, state, and citizenship. Religious identity, symbols, and practice became tools for politicians and church leaders alike to appropriate as instruments to define national belonging, often to the detriment of those outside the faith tradition. Religion, Ethnonationalism, and Antisemitism in the Era of the Two World Wars places the interaction between religion and ethnonationalism--a particular articulation of nationalism based upon an imagined ethnic community--at the centre of its analysis, offering a new lens through which to analyze how nationalism, ethnicity, and race became markers of inclusion and exclusion. Those who did not embrace the same ethnonationalist vision faced ostracization and persecution, with Jews experiencing pervasive exclusion and violence as centuries of antisemitic Christian rhetoric intertwined with right-wing nationalist extremism. The thread of antisemitism as a manifestation of ethnonationalism is woven through each of the essays, along with the ways in which individuals sought to critique religious ethnonationalism and the violence it inspired. With case studies from the United States, France, Italy, Germany, Finland, Croatia, Ukraine, and Romania, Religion, Ethnonationalism, and Antisemitism in the Era of the Two World Wars thoroughly explores the confluence of religion, race, ethnicity, and antisemitism that led to the annihilative destruction of the Second World War and the Holocaust, challenging readers to identify and confront the inherent dangers of narrowly defined ideologies."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Issued also in print format
Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed Janurary 3, 2022)
Subject Antisemitism -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Nationalism -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Ethnicity -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Religion and politics -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY / Holocaust.
Antisemitism
Ethnic relations
Ethnicity
Nationalism
Religion and politics
SUBJECT Europe -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century
Subject Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Spicer, Kevin P., 1965- editor.
Carter-Chand, Rebecca, editor.
ISBN 9780228010203
0228010209
9780228010210
0228010217