ID - 76568503 TI - Identity and intolerance : nationalism, racism, and xenophobia in Germany and the United States AU - Finzsch, Norbert AU - Schirmer, Dietmar PY - 1998 SN - 0521591589 0521525993 1139052675 9781139052672 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Nationalism KW - Nativistic movements KW - Racism KW - Xenophobia KW - Zenophobia KW - Phobias KW - Ethnic revivals KW - Messianic cults KW - Prophetistic movements KW - Sects, Nativistic KW - Cults KW - Ethnology KW - Religion KW - Messianism KW - Sociology of minorities KW - Germany KW - United States KW - Arts and Humanities KW - History KW - United States of America UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:76568503 AB - In a world of increasingly heterogeneous societies, matters of identity politics and the links between collective identities and national, racial, or ethnic intolerance have assumed dramatic significance - and have stimulated an enormous body of research and literature which rarely transcends the limitations of a national perspective, however, and thus reproduces the limitations of its own topic. Comparative attempts are rare, if not altogether absent. Identity and Intolerance attempts to shift the focus toward comparison in order to show how German and American societies have historically confronted matters of national, racial, and ethnic inclusion and exclusion. This perspective sheds light on the specific links between the cultural construction of nationhood and otherness, the political modes of integration and exclusion, and the social conditions of tolerance and intolerance. The contributors also attempt to integrate the approaches offered by the history of ideas and ideologies, social history, and discourse theory. ER -