Christianity and national identity in twentieth-century europe: conflict, community, and the social order

Media type: E-Book; Conference Proceedings

Title: Christianity and national identity in twentieth-century europe : conflict, community, and the social order

Contains: Preface / John Carter Wood
-- "Blessed is the nation"? Christianity and national identity in twentieth-century Europe / John Carter Wood -- -- Section I : Christianity, conflict, and community -- -- Preaching in Catalan : religion, language, and nationalism in early twentieth-century Spain / Jorge Luengo -- -- Forever England beneath the cross of sacrifice : Christianity and national identity in British first world war cemeteries / John Wolffe -- -- Secularisation, ecumenism, and identity on the Island of Ireland / Gladys Ganiel -- -- "Orthodox brothers" : ecclesiastical jurisdiction, national identity, and conflict between the Romanian and Russian orthodox Churches in Moldavia / Mihai-D. Grigore -- -- Section II : religion, Nation, and the social order -- -- Pastor martin niemoller, German protestantism, and German national identity, 1933-1937 / Matthew D. Hockenos -- -- "The rock of human sanity stands in the sea where it always stood" : Christian intellectuals, British national character, and the experience of (Near) defeat, 1937-1942 / John Carter Wood -- -- "A spirit that revives"? Reshaping Catholic Poland in late socialism, 1977-1981 / Gregor Feindt -- -- Section III : faith, Nation, and "Europe" -- -- Between a Christian Fatherland and Euro-Christendom / Patrick Pasture -- -- The Christian Churches between European and national identities : Europeanisation via constitutional law? / Lazaros Miliopoulos -- Contributorbiographies

Contributor: Wood, John Carter [Editor]

Published: Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, [2016]

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (211 Seiten)

Language: English

DOI: 10.13109/9783666101496

ISBN: 9783666101496

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RVK notation: BP 5050 : Gesamtdarstellungen

Keywords: Europa > Christentum > Nationalbewusstsein > Politische Identität > Religiöse Identität > Geschichte 1900-2000

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Description: Angaben zur beteiligten Person Feindt: Gregor Feindt studierte Geschichte und Slavistik in Bonn und Krakau und wurde 2013 in Bonn mit einer Arbeit zu oppositionellen Bewegungen in Ostmitteleuropa promoviert.

Angaben zur beteiligten Person Gerber: PD Dr. Stefan Gerber ist Privatdozent am Lehrstuhl für Geschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.

Angaben zur beteiligten Person Grigore: PD Dr. Mihai-D. Grigore ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte in Mainz.

This collection explores how Christian individuals and institutions – whether Churches, church-related organisations, clergy, or lay thinkers – combined the topics of faith and national identity in twentieth-century Europe. “National identity” is understood in a broad sense that includes discourses of citizenship, narratives of cultural or linguistic belonging, or attributions of distinct, “national” characteristics. The collection addresses Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox perspectives, considers various geographical contexts, and takes into account processes of cross-national exchange and transfer. It shows how national and denominational identities were often mutually constitutive, at times leading to a strongly exclusionary stance against “other” national or religious groups. In different circumstances, religiously minded thinkers critiqued nationalism, emphasising the universalist strains of their faith, with varying degrees of success. Moreover, throughout the century, and especially since 1945, both church officials and lay Christians have had to come to terms with the relationship between their national and “European” identities and have sought to position themselves within the processes of Europeanisation. Various contexts for the negotiation of faith and nation are addressed: media debates, domestic and international political arenas, inner-denominational and ecumenical movements, church organisations, cosmopolitan intellectual networks and the ideas of individual thinkers.; This collection explores how Christian individuals and institutions – whether Churches, church-related organisations, clergy, or lay thinkers – combined the topics of faith and national identity in twentieth-century Europe. “National identity” is understood in a broad sense that includes discourses of citizenship, narratives of cultural or linguistic belonging, or attributions of distinct, “national” characteristics. The collection addresses Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox perspectives, considers various geographical contexts, and takes into account processes of cross-national exchange and transfer. It shows how national and denominational identities were often mutually constitutive, at times leading to a strongly exclusionary stance against “other” national or religious groups. In different circumstances, religiously minded thinkers critiqued nationalism, emphasising the universalist strains of their faith, with varying degrees of success. Moreover, throughout the centu...

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