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The Holy Reich
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ISBN: 9780521823715 9780511818103 9780521603522 0521603528 0521823714 9781461938309 1461938309 0511818106 1139883070 1107385822 1107383927 1107390354 1107398762 1107387434 Year: 2003 Publisher: Cambridge, UK New York Cambridge University Press

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Analyzing the previously unexplored religious views of the Nazi elite, Richard Steigmann-Gall argues against the consensus that Nazism as a whole was either unrelated to Christianity or actively opposed to it. He demonstrates that many participants in the Nazi movement believed that the contours of their ideology were based on a Christian understanding of Germany's ills and their cure. A program usually regarded as secular in inspiration - the creation of a racialist 'people's community' embracing antisemitism, antiliberalism and anti-Marxism - was, for these Nazis, conceived in explicitly Christian terms. His examination centers on the concept of 'positive Christianity,' a religion espoused by many members of the party leadership. He also explores the struggle the 'positive Christians' waged with the party's paganists - those who rejected Christianity in toto as foreign and corrupting - and demonstrates that this was not just a conflict over religion, but over the very meaning of Nazi ideology itself.

Christians and Jews in dispute : disputational literature and the rise of anti-Judaism in the West (c. 1000-1150)
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ISBN: 0860786749 Year: 1998 Volume: 621

Oil age Eskimos
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ISBN: 0520061411 0520068432 0585153671 Year: 1990 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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Gavin I. Langmuir's work on the formation and nature of antisemitism has earned him an international reputation. In 'History, Religion, and Antisemitism' he bravely confronts the problems that arise when historians have to describe and explain religious phenomena, as any historian of antisemitism must. How, and to what extent, can the historian be objective? Is it possible to discuss Christian attitudes toward Jews, for example, without adopting the historical explanations of those whose thoughts and actions one is discussing? What, exactly, does the historian mean by "religion" or "religious"? Langmuir's original and stimulating responses to these questions reflect his inquiry into the approaches of anthropology, sociology, and psychology and into recent empirical research on the functioning of the mind and the nature of thought. His distinction between religiosity, a property of individuals, and religion, a social phenomenon, allows him to place unusual emphasis on the role of religious doubts and tensions and the irrationality they can produce. Defining antisemitism as irrational beliefs about Jews, he distinguishes Christian anti-Judaism from Christian antisemitism, demonstrates that antisemitism emerged in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries because of rising Christian doubts, and sketches how the revolutionary changes in religion and mentality in the modern period brought new faiths, new kinds of religious doubt, and a deadlier expression of antisemitism. Although he developed it in dealing with the difficult question of antisemitism, Langmuir's approach to religious history is important for historians in all areas.

Antisemitism : myth and hate from antiquity to the present
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ISBN: 0312165617 Year: 2002 Publisher: New York : Palgrave,

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