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The modernist God state [electronic resource] : a literary study of the Nazis' Christian Reich / Michael Lackey.
The Modernist God State seeks to overturn the traditional secularization approach to intellectual and political history and to replace it with a fuller understanding of the religious basis of modernist political movements. Lackey demonstrates that Christianity, instead of fading after the Enlightenment, actually increased its power by becoming embedded within the concept of what was considered the legitimate nation state, thus determining the political agendas of prominent political leaders from King Leopold II to Hitler. Lackey first argues that novelists can represent intellectual and politi.
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- ISBN: 9781441198730
- ISBN: 1441198733
- Physical Description: 1 online resource.
- Publisher: London ; Continuum International Pub., ©2012.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Acknowledgments; Debunking the Secularization Hypothesis; 1 Short-circuiting aesthetics: a novel theory about the origins of Hitler and the Nazis; 2 The secularization hypothesis: an exercise in political blindness; The Theology of the Modernist God State; 3 "In-depth Christianization": E.M. Forster and the modernist "religious sense"; 4 Louise Erdrich, Alice Walker, and David Mamet on the supersessionist theology of the sacred imagined nation; 5 Joseph Conrad and Michael Bakunin on the redemptive logic of Western genocide; The Nazis' Christian Reich. 6 The making of Hitler and the Nazis: a tale of modern secularization or Christian idealism?7 William Styron's Sophie's Choice: locating the Christian theology of the Nazi's genocidal anti-Semitism; Conclusion The theological origins of Hitler and the Nazis: a question of method; Bibliography; Index. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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