Fighting for the Soul of Germany: The Catholic Struggle for Inclusion after Unification

Medientyp: E-Book

Titel: Fighting for the Soul of Germany : The Catholic Struggle for Inclusion after Unification

Beteiligte: Ayako Bennette, Rebecca [VerfasserIn]

Erschienen: Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]: Harvard Univ. Press, 2012
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012
Online-Ausg.: Berlin [u.a.]: De Gruyter

Umfang: X, 368 S.; Kt

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.4159/harvard.9780674064805

ISBN: 9780674064805; 9780674065635

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RVK-Notation: BO 6080 : Allgemeines
NP 3320 : Kulturkampf

Schlagwörter: Deutschland > Kulturkampf > Geschichte 1871-1887
Deutschland > Katholizismus > Nationalbewusstsein > Geschichte 1866-1914
Deutschland > Kulturkampf > Geschichte 1871-1887
Deutschland > Nationalbewusstsein > Katholizismus > Geschichte 1871-1900

Reproduktionsreihe: De Gruyter eBook-Paket Geschichte, Politikwissenschaft, Soziologie

Art der Reproduktion: Online-Ausg.

Hersteller der Reproduktion: Berlin [u.a.]: De Gruyter

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Anmerkungen: Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-349) and index

Beschreibung: The German question and religion -- The beginning of the German epoch -- The limits of loyalty tested -- The real threat emerges -- The search for continued relevance -- Mapping Germany from the borders to Berlin -- Femininity and the debate over the guiding principle of the nation -- The battle over schools and scholarship -- The moral geography of Europe and beyond

Biographical note: BennetteRebecca Ayako: Rebecca Ayako Bennette is Assistant Professor of History at Middlebury College.

Main description: Historians have long believed that Catholics were late and ambivalent supporters of the German nation. Rebecca Ayako Bennette’s bold new interpretation demonstrates definitively that from the beginning in 1871, when Wilhelm I was proclaimed Kaiser of a unified Germany, Catholics were actively promoting a German national identity for the new Reich. In the years following unification, Germany was embroiled in a struggle to define the new nation. Otto von Bismarck and his allies looked to establish Germany as a modern nation through emphasis on Protestantism and military prowess. Many Catholics feared for their future when he launched the Kulturkampf, a program to break the political and social power of German Catholicism. But these anti-Catholic policies did not destroy Catholic hopes for the new Germany. Rather, they encouraged Catholics to develop an alternative to the Protestant and liberal visions that dominated the political culture. Bennette’s reconstruction of Catholic thought and politics sheds light on several aspects of German life. From her discovery of Catholics who favored a more 0feminine0 alternative to Bismarckian militarism to her claim that anti-socialism, not anti-Semitism, energized Catholic politics, Bennette’s work forces us to rethink much of what we know about religion and national identity in late nineteenth-century Germany.

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