Wood Christianity and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Europe

Conflict, Community, and the Social Order
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-647-10149-1
Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band Band 111, 211 Seiten

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

Gerber, Stefan

Grigore, Mihai-D.

Hockenos, Matthew D.

Luengo Sanchez, Jorge

Miliopoulos, Lazaros

Pasture, Patrick

Wolffe, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Christliches Leben & Praxis
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Christentum und Gesellschaft, Kirche und Politik
• 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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover;1
2;Title Page;4
3;Copyright;5
4;Table of Contents;8
5;Body;10
6;John Carter Wood: Preface;10
7;John Carter Wood: “Blessed is the nation”? Christianity and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Europe;12
8;Section I: Christianity, Conflict, and Community;34
8.1;Jorge Luengo: Preaching in Catalan: Religion, Language, and Nationalism in Early Twentieth-Century Spain;36
8.2;John Wolffe: Forever England beneath the Cross of Sacrifice: Christianity and National Identity in British First World War Cemeteries;54
8.3;Gladys Ganiel: Secularisation, Ecumenism, and Identity on the Island of Ireland;74
8.4;Mihai-D. Grigore: “Orthodox Brothers”: Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, National Identity, and Conflict between the Romanian and Russian Orthodox Churches in Moldavia;92
9;Section II : Religion, Nation, and the Social Order;112
9.1;Matthew D. Hockenos: Pastor Martin Niemöller, German Protestantism, and German National Identity, 1933–1937;114
9.2;John Carter Wood: “The Rock of Human Sanity Stands in the Sea Where It Always Stood”: Christian Intellectuals, British National Character, and the Experience of (Near) Defeat, 1937–1942;132
9.3;Gregor Feindt: “A Spirit that Revives”? Reshaping Catholic Poland in Late Socialism, 1977–1981;150
10;Section III : Faith, Nation, and “Europe”;168
10.1;Patrick Pasture: Between a Christian Fatherland and Euro-Christendom;170
10.2;Lazaros Miliopoulos: The Christian Churches between European and National Identities: Europeanisation via Constitutional Law?;190
11;Contributor Biographies;210

Über Autor(innen)

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

Gerber, Stefan
PD Dr. Stefan Gerber ist Privatdozent am Lehrstuhl für Geschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts der Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.

Feindt, Gregor
Gregor Feindt studierte Geschichte und Slavistik in Bonn und Krakau und wurde 2013 in Bonn mit einer Arbeit zu oppositionellen Bewegungen in Ostmitteleuropa promoviert.