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France and Germany in the early 20th century were §communities of faith. In the national rhetoric of §the time they appeared not only as countries but as §beliefs. To each of them a national gospel was §closely linked, which this innovative study sets out §to explore. §§The gospel of republican France was a transfer of §faith from the Church to the republican nation. That §of imperial Germany was a fusion of national and §Lutheran-protestant thought. In both countries, a §common Catholic version of the gospel was in §opposition: it accepted neither model, insisting on §an ideal of symbiosis between state and Church. §§A complex interplay between national and religious §tradition produced two very different national §gospels. France was an open universalistic church, §like the catholic had always been. Conversely, the §German national community appeared much more as a §particularistic tribe: it was considerably more self-§referential, had strong anti-universalistic currents §and a much more closed view of the national §community. It appeared as a community not only of §faith, but also of blood.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History

• Full title: Nation as Faith
• Author: Arve T Thorsen
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• EAN: 9783639074277
• ISBN: 3639074270
• ID: 06816691
• Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.
• Weight: 472 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. September 2008

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