Religion, Ethnonationalism, and Antisemitism in the Era of the Two World Wars

In the wake of WWI, religious identity and practice became tools for leaders to appropriate as instruments to define national belonging, often to the detriment of those outside the faith tradition. This book places ethnonationalism - a particular articulation of nationalism based upon an imagined et...

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Contributors: Spicer, Kevin P. (Editor) ; Carter-Chand, Rebecca (Contributor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Montreal McGill-Queen's University Press 2022
In:Year: 2022
Series/Journal:McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Europe / History 1914-1945 / Antisemitism / National consciousness / Ethnic identity / Nationalism / Ethnicity / Religion / USA
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Nationalism-Europe-History-20th century
B Electronic books
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Summary:In the wake of WWI, religious identity and practice became tools for leaders to appropriate as instruments to define national belonging, often to the detriment of those outside the faith tradition. This book places ethnonationalism - a particular articulation of nationalism based upon an imagined ethnic community - at the centre of its analysis.
Cover -- Religion, Ethnonationalism, and Antisemitism in the Era of the Two World Wars -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE Theorizing Religion, Ethnonationalism, and Antisemitism -- 1 Adopting the Swastika: George E. Deatherage and the American Nationalist Confederation, 1937-1942 -- 2 Transnational Antisemitic Networks and Political Christianity: The Catholic Participation in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion -- 3 Julius Evola and the "Jewish Problem" in Axis Europe: Race, Religion, and Antisemitism -- PART TWO Supporting Ethnonationalist Efforts -- 4 German Catholicism's Lost Opportunity to Confront Antisemitism before the Machtergreifung -- 5 The Fate of John's Gospel during the Third Reich -- 6 Nationalism and Religious Bonds: Transatlantic Religious Communities in Nazi Germany and the United States -- 7 "Often you end up asking yourself, could there be a great secret group of Jews behind it all." - Antisemitism in the Finnish Lutheran Church after the First World War -- 8 "The Converts Were Just Delighted": Dynamics of Religious Conversion as a Tool of Genocide in the Independent State of Croatia -- PART THREE Critiquing Ethnonationalism and Antisemitism -- 9 Learning as a Space of Protection: The Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Nazi Berlin -- 10 Ethnonationalism as a Theological Crisis: Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky and the Greek Catholic Church in Western Ukraine, 1923-1944 -- 11 To Murder or Save Thy Neighbour? Romanian Orthodox Clergymen and Jews during the Holocaust (1941-1945) -- 12 Racist, Brutal, and Ethnotheist: A Conservative Christian View of Nazism in the Korntal Brethren -- 13 Ecumenical Protestant Responses to the Rise of Nazism, Fascism, and Antisemitism during the 1920s and 1930s -- Afterword -- Contributors -- Index.
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ISBN:0228010217