Germany and the Confessional Divide

Religious Tensions and Political Culture, 1871-1989

438 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

From German unification in 1871 through the early 1960s, confessional tensions between Catholics and Protestants were a source of deep division in German society. Engaging this period of historic strife, Germany and the Confessional Divide focuses on three traumatic episodes: the Kulturkampf waged against the Catholic Church in the 1870s, the collapse of the Hohenzollern monarchy and state-supported Protestantism after World War I, and the Nazi persecution of the churches. It argues that memories of these traumatic experiences regularly reignited confessional tensions. Only as German society became increasingly secular did these memories fade and tensions ease.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Besondere Ereignisse und Themen Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
• ISBN: 9781800730878
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 10.12.2021
• Größe: 232 x 155 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Herausgegeben von: Mark Edward Ruff, Thomas Großbölting