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Jurisprudenz in Freiburg
English summary: Focusing on scholarly and historical aspects, Alexander Hollerbach provides the essential elements of a history of the faculty of law in Freiburg since the university was founded in 1457. The various articles focus on the 19th and 20th century, and in particular on individual legal subjects such as the philosophy of law, canon law and public law as well as the development during the Nazi period. In addition to cross-sections from general history and the history of specific subjects, a substantial part of the book consists of biographical studies of eminent scholars who were in Freiburg. This work also contains an extensive bibliography on the history of the faculty of law in...
Constructing a German Diaspora
This book takes on a global perspective to unravel the complex relationship between Imperial Germany and its diaspora. Around 1900, German-speakers living abroad were tied into global power-political aspirations. They were represented as outposts of a "Greater German Empire" whose ethnic links had to be preserved for their own and the fatherland’s benefits. Did these ideas fall on fertile ground abroad? In the light of extreme social, political, and religious heterogeneity, diaspora construction did not redeem the all-encompassing fantasies of its engineers. But it certainly was at work, as nationalism "went global" in many German ethnic communities. Three thematic areas are taken as examp...
Encyclopedia Paranoiaca
IGNORE THIS BOOK AT YOUR PERIL! Did you know that carrots cause blindness and bananas are radioactive? That too many candlelight dinners can cause cancer? And not only is bottled water a veritable petri dish of biohazards (so is tap water, by the way) but riding a bicycle might destroy your sex life? In Encyclopedia Paranoiaca, master satirists Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf have assembled an authoritative, disturbingly comprehensive, and utterly debilitating inventory of things poised to harm, maim, or kill you—all of them based on actual research about the perils of everyday life. Painstakingly alphabetized, cross-referenced, and thoroughly sourced for easy reference, this book just mi...
Deutsche evangelische Gemeinden im Ausland
English summary: Britta Wellnitz describes the history of the origins of German Protestant communities and churches abroad and the development of their connections to Protestantism in Germany from their beginnings during the Reformation up to the present. Her work focuses on an account of the development of the legal relations from the middle of the 19th century up to the current legal situation. German description: Deutschsprachige evangelische Auslandsgemeinden findet man heute in beinahe allen Hauptstadten, Kultur- und Handelsmetropolen weltweit. Die Auslandsarbeit der EKD ist eine der altesten und bis heute zentralen Gemeinschaftsaufgaben der evangelischen Landeskirchen.Britta Wellnitz z...
German Diasporic Experiences
Co-published with the Waterloo Centre for German Studies For centuries, large numbers of German-speaking people have emigrated from settlements in Europe to other countries and continents. In German Diasporic Experiences: Identity, Migration, and Loss, more than forty international contributors describe and discuss aspects of the history, language, and culture of these migrant groups, individuals, and their descendants. Part I focuses on identity, with essays exploring the connections among language, politics, and the construction of histories—national, familial, and personal—in German-speaking diasporic communities around the world. Part II deals with migration, examining such issues as...
The German-speaking community of Victoria between 1850 and 1930
At the time of Australian Federation in 1901, German immigrants constituted two per cent of the population of Victoria. This book examines how they settled, formed a communal infrastructure, and how they related to their Anglo-Celtic hosts. It is shown that their attempts to form a cohesive community failed, by investigating the role played by the Lutheran Church, German associations, community leaders, and the rift between rural and urban communities. The changing relationship between the British Empire, the German Reich and emerging Australian nationalism receives close attention. The book tests and then proves a hypothesis that rural communities were more resilient and better equipped to survive, while urban communities were not.
"Die Kirche unserer Väter"
Für viele Deutsche, die im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert nach Südamerika auswanderten, behielt das "Deutschtum" eine identitätsstiftende Bedeutung. Dies spiegelt sich in den deutschsprachigen evangelischen Kirchengemeinden in Chile wider. Die aus Deutschland entsandten Pfarrer, die gelebten kirchlichen Traditionen und die gesungenen Lieder stellten für viele Menschen eine Verbindung zur deutschen Heimat dar. In den 1930er und 1940er Jahren gewinnt der Deutschtumsdiskurs an Intensität. Als Teil der deutschsprachigen Kolonien stehen die Kirchengemeinden den nationalsozialistischen Organisationen im Ausland nahe. Viele Pfarrer werden Mitglieder der NSDAP – in ihren Predigten, Ansprachen und Briefen wird die Verbindung zu Heimat und Deutschtum auch theologisch legitimiert. Nach 1945 bleibt eine kritische Betrachtung des Nationalsozialismus weitestgehend aus. Im Gegenteil: Beim Besuch Martin Niemöllers in Südamerika kommt es 1950 zu offenen Auseinandersetzungen über die Deutung der Vergangenheit.
Evangelisch und deutsch?
In Zeiten, in denen Deutschland Ziel für Einwanderung und Flucht aus allen Teilen der Welt ist, erscheint es sinnvoll, sich daran zu erinnern, dass dieses Land über Jahrhunderte primär ein Auswanderungsgebiet war und die Geschichte vieler Deutscher bis in die jüngste Vergangenheit von Emigration, Flucht und Exil geprägt war. Die im vorliegenden Band gebotenen Aufsätze beschreiben den Umgang unterschiedlicher Typen evangelischer Auslandsgemeinden mit den politischen und gesellschaftlichen Krisen und Brüchen des 20. Jahrhunderts in ihrem deutschen Herkunftsland und ihren Gastländern. Im Fokus stehen die Jahre nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg, der Nationalsozialismus, der Zweite Weltkrieg und schließlich die Zeit nach 1945. Es zeigt sich, dass evangelische Auslandsgemeinden im Verlauf des 20. Jahrhunderts ihr Verhältnis zum deutschen Herkunftsland und zur evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland immer wieder neu definieren mussten. Mit dem Thema "Auslandsgemeinden" erschließt sich die kirchliche Zeitgeschichtsforschung ein interessantes, an aktuelle migrations- und globalgeschichtliche Fragestellungen anschlussfähiges Forschungsfeld.
Staat und Religion in Indien
English summary: Ira Das examines the relationship between the state and religion in the Indian Union, which in view of the many religions practiced in India was made into a secular state after it became independent in order to guarantee peaceful coexistence. The principle of secularism is expressed in various constitutional provisions, such as for example the ban on collecting taxes for a certain religion or for religious instruction in state schools. In spite of this, a complete separation of religion and the state has not been established. However the Indian government is in a position to take measures against those religious practices which are regarded as inhumane or discriminatory. The...
