The German Churches and the Holocaust

Ericksen, Robert P.; Heschel, Susannah

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“…The churches also contributed to further refining the criteria for conversion, by no means in unison. The Protestant church, for instance, was divided on the question of religious mission: The 'German Christians' opposed Jewish conversion to avoid the de-purification of 'Germanness' (Ericksen and Heschel, 2004), while the 'Confessing Church' supported the idea of promulgation and appealed to parishes to convert Jews to 'save' them. The Catholic Church sealed its right to proselytise in the 1933 'Reichskonkordat'.…”

Section: The History Of Christianity and The Making Of Racementioning

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The Christian Politics of Identity and the Making of Race in the German Welfare State

Lewicki

2021

Sociology

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The Christian Caritas and Diakonie are Germany’s largest welfare providers. They currently recruit abroad and in refugee shelters to fill staffing shortages in care. Yet, they also seek to preserve their organisations’ Christian identity. Drawing on interviews with facility managers, my research explores how these initiatives shape institutional life in care homes. Specifically, I examine meanings attributed to conversion, notably in relation to Muslim staff. My analysis shows that Christians, nominal (‘by heritage’) or observant, are seen to ‘naturally embody’ care ethics and have privileged access to permanent contracts and leadership positions. The churches’ politics of identity, I argue, racialises affiliation with Christianity into a category of belonging naturally inhabited by some, and only potentially – and always debatably – attainable for others. The analysis feeds into controversies about conversion in the sociology of race and extends scholarship on identity politics beyond its usual focus on minority or far-right activism.

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Section: The History Of Christianity and The Making Of Racementioning

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The Christian Politics of Identity and the Making of Race in the German Welfare State

Lewicki

2021

Sociology

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“…Considering the vast literature on religion and Antisemitism (Langmuir, 1990; furthermore, Ericksen and Heschel, 1999;Gidley and Renton, 2017;Laqueur, 2006;Michael, 2006;Rittner et al, 2000;Spicer, 2007), such an empirical research strategy seems to be most promising. Our study highlights the importance of including variables about gender roles in society and variables about the concrete understanding of the relationship between religion and state in future Antisemitism studies.…”

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The Return of Religious Anti-Semitism? The Evidence from World Values Survey Data

Tausch

2019

Islamism, Crisis and Democratization

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Materials and methods Global value studies are made possible by the availability of systematic and comparative opinion surveys over time under the auspices of leading representatives of the social science research community, featuring the global/and or the European populations with a fairly constant questionnaire for several decades now. In the case of the World Values Survey, the original data were made freely available to the global scientific publics and render themselves for systematic, multivariate analysis of opinion structures on the basis of the original anonymous interview data. 5 Our data thus are from this set of reliable and regularly repeated global opinion surveys (see

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‘Dark, Depressing Riddle’

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The German Churches and the Holocaust

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References 6 publications

The Christian Politics of Identity and the Making of Race in the German Welfare State

The Christian Politics of Identity and the Making of Race in the German Welfare State

The Return of Religious Anti-Semitism? The Evidence from World Values Survey Data

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