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The Holocaust and Masculinities
In recent decades, scholarship has turned to the role of gender in the Holocaust, but rarely has it critically investigated the experiences of men as gendered beings. Beyond the clear observation that most perpetrators of murder were male, men were also victims, survivors, bystanders, beneficiaries, accomplices, and enablers; they negotiated roles as fathers, spouses, community leaders, prisoners, soldiers, professionals, authority figures, resistors, chroniclers, or ideologues. This volume examines men's experiences during the Holocaust. Chapters first focus on the years of genocide: Jewish victims of National Socialism, Nazi soldiers, Catholic priests enlisted in the Wehrmacht, Jewish doctors in the ghettos, men from the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz, and Muselmänner in the camps. The book then moves to the postwar context: German Protestant theologians, Jewish refugees, non-Jewish Austrian men, and Jewish masculinities in the United States. The contributors articulate the male experience in the Holocaust as something obvious (the everywhere of masculinities) and yet invisible (the nowhere of masculinities), lending a new perspective on one of modernity's most infamous chapters.
The Moment of Death in Early Modern Europe, C. 1450-1800
Both in our time and in the past, death was one of the most important aspects of anyone's life. The early modern period saw drastic changes in rites of death, burials and commemoration. One particularly fruitful avenue of research is not to focus on death in general, but the moment of death specifically. This volume investigates this transitionary moment between life and death. In many cases, this was a death on a deathbed, but it also included the scaffold, battlefield, or death in the streets. Contributors: Friedrich J. Becher, Benedikt Brunner, Isabel Casteels, Martin Christ, Louise Deschryver, Irene Dingel, Michaël Green, Vanessa Harding, Sigrun Haude, Vera Henkelmann, Imke Lichterfeld, Erik Seeman, Elizabeth Tingle, and Hillard von Thiessen.
The Strangers in Our Midst
"The Strangers in Our Midst tells the story of how American evangelicals have responded to refugees and immigrants - ranging from the Cuban refugee influx in the 1960s, to the Southeast Asian refugees in the 1980s, to undocumented immigrants from Latin America in the 1990s and 2000s. Evangelical Christians have been a pillar of US immigration and refugee policy since the end of World War II in two key ways: by acting as refugee sponsors and by offering legalization assistance to undocumented immigrants. They developed an elaborate evangelical theology of hospitality, which emphasized scriptural commands to "welcome the stranger." Initially, evangelicals did not distinguish between legal immi...
Stormtroopers
Introduction: a night of violence -- Turmoil in post-war Germany and the origins of the Nazi SA -- Stormtrooper street politics: mobilization in times of crisis -- The SA cult of youth and violence in the Weimar Republic -- Terror, excitement, and frustration -- The "Röhm purge" and the myth of the homosexual Nazi -- The transformation of the SA between 1934 and 1939 -- Streetfighters into farmers? The SA and the "Germanization" of the European east -- Stormtroopers in the Second World War -- SA diplomats and the Holocaust in Southeastern Europe -- "Not guilty": the legacy of the SA in Germany after the Second World War -- Conclusion: the SA and National Socialism
Faith in the New Millennium
In Faith in the New Millennium, Matthew Avery Sutton and Darren Dochuk bring together a collection of essays from renowned historians, sociologists, and religious studies scholars that address the future of religion and American politics. The contributors discuss questions related to issues such as religion and immigration reform, civil rights, gay marriage, race, ethnicity, foreign policy, popular culture, nationalism, and the environment, investigating how faith, in the age of Obama, has been transformed.
»Eyn sonderlicher Gottisdienst«?
Wie war und wie ist der theologische Berufsstand in deutschen Parlamenten repräsentiert? In welchen Parteien engagieren sich evangelische Theologinnen und Theologen in welchen Epochen vorrangig? Welche fachpolitischen Aufgaben übernahmen sie im Parlament schwerpunktmäßig? Lässt sich eine bestimmte Typologie von Karriereverläufen feststellen? Die Beiträge dieses Bandes behandeln erstmals das Wirken evangelischer Theologinnen und Theologen in deutschen Parlamenten seit 1848. Neben umfangreichem statistischem Material legt er exemplarische Studien zur Lerngeschichte des deutschen Protestantismus vor, in denen die historischen Kontexte, der rechtliche Rahmen und das politische Wirken der theologischen Parlamentarier beleuchtet werden.
Kapitalismuskritik im Christentum
Geht man der Frage nach, wo die geistigen Wurzeln der sozialen Marktwirtschaft liegen, stößt man auf die Kapitalismuskritik, die in den 1920er- und 1930er-Jahren gerade auch seitens der christlichen Konfessionen geübt wurde. In diesem Buch werden die Positionen wichtiger Protagonisten und Vordenker dieser Denkrichtung analysiert: Paul Tillich, Georg Wünsch, Karl Barth, Oswald von Nell-Breuning und Joseph Höffner. Daneben zeigt der Band exemplarisch, inwieweit die protestantische Sozialethik und die katholische Soziallehre Einfluss auf die Wirtschaftsordnung der Bundesrepublik genommen haben.
Die verlorene Gemeinschaft
The integration of 8 million displaced persons affected West German Protestantism. Millions had to be integrated into the West German evangelical church communities. Different pious cultures clashed sharply in the communities; the various internal Protestant confessions caused considerable conflicts. Which integration concepts were discussed in Protestantism? What did society hold together? How did Protestant actors influence the political process and what role did religious actors play? This work deals with these exciting questions.
