Cultural Confessionalism

Author : Grant Henley
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 3039102982

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Cultural Confessionalism by Grant Henley Pdf

Pastor Martin Niemöller, popular author Ernst Wiechert, and the young theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer were well known in the public sphere in Germany when Hitler came to power in 1933. As the decade of the 1930s progressed each of these figures became a vocal opponent of National Socialism. In the last twenty-eight sermons delivered before his arrest in 1937 Martin Niemöller revitalized Protestant homiletic discourse as a political tool in defiance of the regime. Having protested Niemöller's imprisonment, Ernst Wiechert was arrested by the Gestapo and incarcerated at Buchenwald for three months during the summer of 1938. Wiechert chronicled his experiences in the fictional autobiography Der Totenwald (1939) - a text which marks the apex of Wiechert's literary turn from Blut und Boden Dichter to outspoken critic of Nazism. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a member of the Pastors' Emergency League and for a time pastoral assistant to Martin Niemöller, constructed a sphere of textual resistance in his prose and poetic writings composed while imprisoned in Tegel from 1943 to 1945. This study traces the emergence of cultural confessionalism as a new literary resistance paradigm that developed out of the ideological nexus of cultural Protestantism and the confessionalist trend of the Kirchenkampf. Through literary analysis of sermons by Niemöller and written texts by both Wiechert and Bonhoeffer the book demonstrates how the textual resistance strategies of the cultural confessionalists varied from the oppositional approaches of the 'innere Emigration', the political resistance, and the Christian humanist tradition.

Author : Dave Tell
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780271060248

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Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America by Dave Tell Pdf

Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America revolutionizes how we think about confession and its ubiquitous place in American culture. It argues that the sheer act of labeling a text a confession has become one of the most powerful, and most overlooked, forms of intervening in American cultural politics. In the twentieth century alone, the genre of confession has profoundly shaped (and been shaped by) six of America’s most intractable cultural issues: sexuality, class, race, violence, religion, and democracy.

Author : Andrew L. Thomas
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004183704

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A House Divided: Wittelsbach Confessional Court Cultures in the Holy Roman Empire, c. 1550-1650 by Andrew L. Thomas Pdf

This book examines the intersection between religious belief, dynastic ambitions, and late Renaissance court culture within the main branches of Germany's most storied ruling house, the Wittelsbach dynasty. Their influence touched many shores from the "coast" of Bohemia to Boston.

Author : Dave Tell
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271060255

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Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America by Dave Tell Pdf

Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America revolutionizes how we think about confession and its ubiquitous place in American culture. It argues that the sheer act of labeling a text a confession has become one of the most powerful, and most overlooked, forms of intervening in American cultural politics. In the twentieth century alone, the genre of confession has profoundly shaped (and been shaped by) six of America’s most intractable cultural issues: sexuality, class, race, violence, religion, and democracy.

Author : Mark Edward Ruff,Thomas Großbölting
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800730885

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Germany and the Confessional Divide by Mark Edward Ruff,Thomas Großbölting Pdf

From German unification in 1871 through the early 1960s, confessional tensions between Catholics and Protestants were a source of deep division in German society. Engaging this period of historic strife, Germany and the Confessional Divide focuses on three traumatic episodes: the Kulturkampf waged against the Catholic Church in the 1870s, the collapse of the Hohenzollern monarchy and state-supported Protestantism after World War I, and the Nazi persecution of the churches. It argues that memories of these traumatic experiences regularly reignited confessional tensions. Only as German society became increasingly secular did these memories fade and tensions ease.

Author : Christopher Grobe
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781479882083

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The Art of Confession by Christopher Grobe Pdf

"The Art of Confession tells the history of this cultural shift and of the movement it created in American art: confessionalism. Like realism or romanticism, confessionalism began in one art form, but soon pervaded them all: poetry and comedy in the 1950s and '60s, performance art in the '70s, theater in the '80s, television in the '90s, and online video and social media in the 2000s. Everywhere confessionalism went, it stood against autobiography, the art of the closed book. Instead of just publishing, these artists performed--with, around, and against the text of their lives." --

Author : Irene Gammel
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0809322536

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Confessional Politics by Irene Gammel Pdf

The premise of Confessional Politics is that in this confessional age, "telling all is in." From a unique variety of perspectives and angles, the essays in this collection explore the association of confession with femininity; they examine its function as a gender-specific discourse as they probe its many feminized genres and subgenres. Confessional Politics investigates the creative and strategic ways in which women shape the telling of their sexual stories in order to resist and negotiate the confessional practices designed to position them in conventional sexual frameworks. Investigating the confessional politics of traditional forms of social life writing (including erotic diaries, journals, letters, and confessional fiction), this book significantly expands its focus beyond conventional forms to include practices affecting mass readerships and audiences. The collection addresses provocative general topics: talk shows, sexual harassment, sexual abuse, sexuality, self-help books, and cross-dressing, as well as expressive works such as contemporary Canadian women's poetry, lesbian fiction, performance art, Anne Frank's recently released complete diary, and memoirs.

Author : BethFowkes Tobin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351536806

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Women and the Material Culture of Death by BethFowkes Tobin Pdf

Examining the compelling and often poignant connection between women and the material culture of death, this collection focuses on the objects women make, the images they keep, the practices they use or are responsible for, and the places they inhabit and construct through ritual and custom. Women?s material practices, ranging from wearing mourning jewelry to dressing the dead, stitching memorial samplers to constructing skull boxes, collecting funeral programs to collecting and studying diseased hearts, making and collecting taxidermies, and making sculptures honoring the death, are explored in this collection as well as women?s affective responses and sentimental labor that mark their expected and unexpected participation in the social practices surrounding death and the dead. The largely invisible work involved in commemorating and constructing narratives and memorials about the dead-from family members and friends to national figures-calls attention to the role women as memory keepers for families, local communities, and the nation. Women have tended to work collaboratively, making, collecting, and sharing objects that conveyed sentiments about the deceased, whether human or animal, as well as the identity of mourners. Death is about loss, and many of the mourning practices that women have traditionally and are currently engaged in are about dealing with private grief and public loss as well as working to mitigate the more general anxiety that death engenders about the impermanence of life.

Author : F. A. van Lieburg
Publisher : Philipp Von Zabern
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015064855664

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Confessionalism and Pietism by F. A. van Lieburg Pdf

This volume presents the proceeding of the first conference of the network programme on Cultural History of Pietism and Revivalism, held in November 2004 in Dordrecht. The papers address issues related to Pietist movements, confessional formation, and theories of confessionalisation. The question whether Pietism should be seen as a consequence of or a reaction to confessionalisation attracts serious attention. The volume consists of four sections on Tradition, Communication, Implementation and Imagination, covering contributions from Craig Atwood, Claus Bernet, Jrgen Beyer, David B. Eller, John Exalto, Raymond Gillespie, Willem J. opt Hof, Janis Kreslins, Hartmut Lehmann, Fred van Lieburg, Johan de Niet, Carola Nordbck, Salvador Ryan, Douglas Shantz, Jonathan Strom, Andr Swanstrm, Mary Noll Venables and Peter Vogt.

Author : Eugene Rathbone Fairweather
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Anglican Communion
ISBN : WISC:89064875842

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Report of Proceedings by Eugene Rathbone Fairweather Pdf

Author : Nadine Rossol,Benjamin Ziemann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198845775

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The Oxford Handbook of the Weimar Republic by Nadine Rossol,Benjamin Ziemann Pdf

The Weimar Republic was a turbulent and pivotal period of German and European history and a laboratory of modernity. The Oxford Handbook of the Weimar Republic provides an unsurpassed panorama of German history from 1918 to 1933, offering an indispensable guide for anyone interested in the fascinating history of the Weimar Republic.

Author : Samir Khalaf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015054380798

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Cultural Resistance by Samir Khalaf Pdf

Khalaf explores the interplay between traditional loyalties and social change, and the failure of Arab intellectuals to serve as effective vehicles of social and political change in their societies. He also looks at the Protestant legacy in the Middle East.

Author : Christopher Clark
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141929965

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Kaiser Wilhelm II by Christopher Clark Pdf

King of Prussia, German Emperor, war leader and defeated exile, Kaiser Wilhelm II was one of the most important - and most controversial - figures in the history of twentieth-century Europe. But how much power did he really have? The acclaimed historian Christopher Clark follows Kaiser Wilhelm's political career from his youth at the Hohenzollern court through the turbulent decades of the Wilhelmine era into global war and the collapse of Germany in 1918, to his last days. He asks: what was his true role in the events that led to the outbreak of the First World War? What was the nature and extent of his control? What were his political goals and his success in achieving them? How did he project authority and exercise influence? How did the people view him? Through original research, Clark presents a fresh new interpretation of this contentious figure, focusing on how his forty-year reign from 1888 to 1918 affected Germany, and the rest of Europe, for years to come.

Author : Edward Hulmes
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015017675383

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Education and Cultural Diversity by Edward Hulmes Pdf

A practical guide for teachers and teacher training students, on how to provide more effective teaching to cope with Britain's pluralist society and the diverse aspirations of the different cultural groups.

Author : Susan David Bernstein
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780807860366

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Confessional Subjects by Susan David Bernstein Pdf

Susan Bernstein examines the gendered power relationships embedded in confessional literature of the Victorian period. Exploring this dynamic in Charlotte Bronta's Villette, Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret, George Eliot's Daniel Deronda, and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles, she argues that although women's disclosures to male confessors repeatedly depict wrongdoing committed against them, they themselves are viewed as the transgressors. Bernstein emphasizes the secularization of confession, but she also places these narratives within the context of the anti-Catholic tract literature of the time. Based on cultural criticism, poststructuralism, and feminist theory, Bernstein's analysis constitutes a reassessment of Freud's and Foucault's theories of confession. In addition, her study of the anti-Catholic propaganda of the mid-nineteenth century and its portrayal of confession provides historical background to the meaning of domestic confessions in the literature of the second half of the century. Originally published in 1997. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.