Ecumenism, Memory, and German Nationalism, 1817-1917

✍ Scribed by Stan M. Landry

• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 210
• Series: Religion and Politics
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Explores the relationship among the German confessional divide, collective memories of religion, and the construction of German national identity and difference. It argues that nineteenth-century proponents of church unity used and abused memories of Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation to espouse German religious unity, which would then serve as a catalyst for German national unification.

"Historians of nineteenth-century German national identity tend to emphasize confessional conflict, above all between Protestants and Catholics. In this wide-ranging book, Stan Landry spotlights an important new side to the story."—Brian Vick, author of Defining Germany

Stan M. Landry is a lecturer in history at Arizona State University. His work has appeared in numerous journals, including Church History, Journal of Religion and Society, Lutheran Quarterly, and Religious Studies Review.

✦ Table of Contents

For the sake of the German fatherland : church unity and the German national idea at the 1817 Reformation anniversaries --
The ecumenical vanguard : ecumenism, nationalism, and Luther-worship in the German revolutions of 1848 --
A holy alliance : right-wing ecumenism and German nationalism, 1860-1866 --
Tragedy and triumph : German unification, the Kulturkampf, and Christian ecumenism, 1866-1883 --
A truce within the walls : the Reformation anniversaries of 1917.