TY - BOOK AU - Bloch,Brandon AU - Bock,Florian AU - Brunner,Benedikt AU - Chappel,James AU - Falter,Jürgen AU - Großbölting,Thomas AU - Kracht,Klaus Große AU - Kösters,Christoph AU - Lepp,Claudia AU - Mitchell,Maria AU - Ruff,Mark Edward AU - Zalar,Jeffrey T. AU - Ziemann,Benjamin TI - Germany and the Confessional Divide: Religious Tensions and Political Culture, 1871-1989 SN - 9781800730878 U1 - 274.3 23//eng/20211015eng PY - 2021///] CY - New York, Oxford PB - Berghahn Books KW - Christianity and politics KW - Germany KW - History KW - Church and state KW - Protestant churches KW - Relations KW - HISTORY / Europe / Germany KW - bisacsh KW - History: 18th/19th Century, History: 20th Century to Present N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; List of Figures and Tables --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Chapter 1 The Kulturkampf and Catholic Identity --; Chapter 2 “Time to Close Ranks”: The Catholic Kulturfront during the Weimar Republic --; Chapter 3 The Revolution of 1918/19: A Traumatic Experience for German Protestantism --; Chapter 4 The Confessional Divide in Voting Behavior --; Chapter 5 The Fascist Origins of German Ecumenism --; Chapter 6 Conversion as a Confessional Irritant: Examples from the Third Reich --; Chapter 7 Imperfect Interconfessionalism: Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Early Christian Democracy --; Chapter 8 Importing Controversy: The Martin Luther Film of 1953 and Confessional Tensions --; Chapter 9 In the Presence of Absence: Transformations of the Confessional Divide in West Germany after the Holocaust --; Chapter 10 A Tense Triangle: The Protestant Church, the Catholic Church, and the SED State --; Chapter 11 A Minority between Confession and Politics: Catholicism in the Soviet Zone of Occupation and the GDR (1945–90) --; Chapter 12 The Churches and Changes in Missionary Work: Biconfessionalism and Developmental Aid to the “Third World” since the 1960s --; Chapter 13 Deconfessionalization after 1945: Protestants and Catholics, Jews and Muslims as Actors within the Religious Sphere of the Federal Republic of Germany --; Conclusion Closing Reflections --; Index; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800730885 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781800730885 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781800730885/original ER -