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The modernist God state a literary study of the Nazis' Christian Reich

Summary: 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: electronic resource
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1 online resource.
Publisher: London ; New York : Continuum International Pub., ©2012.

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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.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.