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- Title
»Zur Germanisierung des Christentums«.
- Authors
Radmüller, Angelo
- Abstract
A Germanic Christianity, like the one that was propagated in the Protestant milieus of the Kaiserreich and the Weimar Republic, can be neither argued for nor thought of in postwar Germany. After 1945, denazification and reeducation successfully reformatted the nationalist discourse as a liberal and democratic consti-tutional patriotism (‚freiheitlich-demokratischer Verfassungspatriotismus’). Essentialist racist and nationalist statements about the German ‚Wesen’ were tabooed. Postwar Protestantism defined itself along the lines of the Confessing Church and its heroes and historiography, and, thus, is influenced by the theological enemies of the historic project to create a Germanic Christianity. This Article follows the rhetorics of a Germanisation of Christianity from its emergence within the liberal branch of German Protestant Theology in the Kaiserreich; it then sees this popularised within nationalist Protestant circles in the wake of World War I and, finally, watches it cease in the radicalized final phase of the Weimar Republic. Special Attention is paid to places where knowledge is codified and publicised, and particularly to the first and second edition of the theological dictionary »Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart«.
- Publication
ZjR: Zeitschrift für junge Religionswissenschaft, 2012, Vol 7, p1
- ISSN
1862-5886
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4000/zjr.399