01882nam a2200241Ia 4500 CTU_174259 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 22.89 943.086 S818 Steigmann-Gall, Richard The Holy Reich : Nazi conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945 Richard Steigmann-Gall New York Cambridge University Press 2003 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 in the Nazi movement believed 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 'peoples' community' embracing anti-Semitism, anti-liberalism and anti-marxism - was for these Nazis conceived in explicitly Christian terms. His examination centers on the concept of 'positive Christianity', a religion expounded by many in 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. National socialism and religion,Christianity and antisemitism,Germany,Tôn giáo và chủ nghĩa Quốc xã,Chủ nghĩa bài Do thái và Người theo đạo Cơ-đốc,Nước Đức Politics and government,Chính quyền và chính trị 1933-1945,1933-1945 Năm Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ