Christianity and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Europe (eBook)

Conflict, Community, and the Social Order

John Carter Wood (Herausgeber)

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2016 | 1. Auflage
211 Seiten
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Unipress (Verlag)
978-3-647-10149-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.9.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz
• Reihe/Serie: Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz
• Co-Autor: Gregor Feindt, Gladys Ganiel, Stefan Gerber, Mihai-D. Grigore, Matthew D. Hockenos, Jorge Luengo Sanchez, Lazaros Miliopoulos, Patrick Pasture, John Wolffe
• Verlagsort: Göttingen
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Schlagworte: Christentum • Nationalismus • Religionsgeschichte
• ISBN-10: 3-647-10149-4 / 3647101494
• ISBN-13: 978-3-647-10149-1 / 9783647101491