The study of religion under the spell of fascism has not received due attention. One reason for the noticeable lack of interest was the political involvement of many historians of religions. Among those who had good reason to leave the era of fascism untouched, we find prominent figures in the field. Another obstacle to examining the past impartially has been the connection with religious and other worldviews which render historical accounts in the study of religion an intricate matter. The articles in this volume provide evidence of the great complexity of the problems involved. Laying the...
The study of religion under the spell of fascism has not received due attention. One reason for the noticeable lack of interest was the political invo...
The articles of this volume treat the expansion of the Nordic ideology in the first half of the twentieth century. They concentrate on the amalgamation of scientific, religious and political features, which transformed the idea of the North into a mainstay of extreme nationalism. Lacking positive norms and values, the Nordic idea depended on the opposition against everything deemed un-Nordic. Volkisch Nordicism shared with conventional forms of nationalism the enmity with Judaism and Bolshevism and to a lesser extent with Anglo-Americanism and Catholicism. Beyond that, it...
The articles of this volume treat the expansion of the Nordic ideology in the first half of the twentieth century. They concentrate on the amalgamatio...
The Scientification of the "Jewish Question" in Nazi Germany describes the attempt of a considerable number of German scholars to counter the vanishing influence of religious prejudices against the Jews with a new antisemitic rationale. As anti-Jewish stereotypes of an old-fashioned soteriological kind had become dysfunctional under the pressure of secularization, a new, more objective explanation was needed to justify the age-old danger of Judaism in the present. In the 1930s a new research field called "Judenforschung" (Jew research) emerged. Its leading figures amalgamated racial...
The Scientification of the "Jewish Question" in Nazi Germany describes the attempt of a considerable number of German scholars to counter the v...
Herrschaft, Macht und Religion bildeten jahrhundertelang eine unhinterfragte Einheit. Diese Übereinkunft zerbricht mit der Französischen Revolution, wodurch sich gesellschaftliche Verhältnisse grundlegend ändern. Anschaulich geht Horst Junginger der deutschen Religionsentwicklung in der Moderne nach und beschreibt Gründe und Folgen dieses Wandels.
Herrschaft, Macht und Religion bildeten jahrhundertelang eine unhinterfragte Einheit. Diese Übereinkunft zerbricht mit der Französischen Revolution,...
