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The modernist God state :

1441155759

1441198733

9781441155757

9781441198730

b571948

The modernist God state :

[Book]

a literary study of the Nazis' Christian Reich

Michael Lackey.

London ; New York

Continuum International Pub.

©2012.

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.

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.

Literary study of the Nazis' Christian Reich

Christianity and literature -- History -- 20th century.

Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

Politics and literature -- History -- 20th century.

Michael Lackey.

Michael Lackey

[Book]

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