German Neo-Pietism, the nation and the Jews: religious awakening and national identities formation, 1815-1861
"This book focuses on the national conceptualization of Judaism and Jews by German neo-Pietists from the early Restoration (1815) until the New Era (neue Ära, 1858-1861), at which point Prussia and other German states embarked on a liberal course. The book demonstrates how a certain understandi...
| Published in: | Routledge studies in modern European history |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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London New York
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2020
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Routledge studies in modern European history (vol. 82)
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| Series/Journal: | Routledge studies in modern European history
vol. 82 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Germany
/ Revival movement
/ Pietism
/ National consciousness
/ Judaism
/ History 1815-1861
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| IxTheo Classification: | CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations |
| Further subjects: | B
Germany
History 1815-1866
B Nationalism (Germany) History 19th century B Germany Religious life and customs B Pietism (Germany) B Jews (Germany) History 1800-1933 |
| Summary: | "This book focuses on the national conceptualization of Judaism and Jews by German neo-Pietists from the early Restoration (1815) until the New Era (neue Ära, 1858-1861), at which point Prussia and other German states embarked on a liberal course. The book demonstrates how a certain understanding of nationalism by Awakened Christians, who were associated with political conservatism, was applied to themselves as belonging to a German nation, and correspondingly to Jews as members of a distinct Jewish nation. It argues that this kind of nationalization by neo-Pietists-among them theologians, intellectuals, and members of the agrarian aristocracy-was interwoven with their religion of the heart, and drew on a tradition of a community of kinship established by the earlier German Pietism since the late seventeenth century. The book sheds new light on the accommodation of nationalism by German Pietist conservatives, who so far were considered as opponents of the national idea. At the same time, it shows that their posture towards Jews was not merely anti-Semitic. It emerged from a specific religious-national synthesis, and aimed at an alternative solution to the Jewish Question, other than emancipation, in the form of Jewish national political independence"-- |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 193-210 |
| ISBN: | 0367503948 |