Christianity and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Europe

Conflict, Community, and the Social Order
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-525-10149-0
Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Buch, Englisch, Band Band 111, 211 Seiten, gebunden, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 480 g

Reihe: Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz - Beihefte

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wood, John Carter

Weitere Mitwirkende

Feindt, Gregor

Ganiel, Gladys

Grigore, Mihai-D.

Hockenos, Matthew D.

Luengo Sanchez, Jorge

Miliopoulos, Lazaros

Pasture, Patrick

Wolffe, John

Gerber, Stefan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Christentum und Gesellschaft, Kirche und Politik
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Christliches Leben & Praxis
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik

Über Autor(innen)

Grigore, Mihai-D.
PD Dr. Mihai-D. Grigore ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte in Mainz.

Gerber, Stefan
Stefan Gerber ist Privatdozent und leitet die Forschungsstelle für Neuere Regionalgeschichte Thüringens an der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.

Feindt, Gregor
Gregor Feindt ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte in Mainz.