Spohn, Elmar (2013) Zwischen Anpassung, Affinität und Resistenz : eine historische Studie zu evangelischen Glaubens- und Gemeinschaftsmissionen in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus. Doctoral thesis, University of South Africa.
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The subject of this study is a historical examination of the German faith-missions (in contemporary terms: evangelical missions) during the period of National Socialism. This topic has been neglected in scholarly research to date. This study describes how these mission agencies acted in the context of the unlawful regime of National Socialism. Due to a problematic source basis, the attitude the faith missions took towards the ursupation of power by Hitler is demonstrated based on their own periodical publications. It emerges that they largely positioned themselves at a distance to National Socialism, racism and anti-semitism. However these publications also demonstrate a distance to the “Confessing Church”. In the main body the examination of eight exemplary biographies based on detailed sources portrays an array of different positions which range from affinity to the NS-system to persecution. Furthermore the study shows that the issue of failure or guilt hardly played any role in the postwar period. This study leads to the conclusion the political ethics of the German faith missions were only rudimentarily developed, and only evinced themselves in an obedience to the powers that be and in a basically apolitical attitude.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Germany, protestant missions, faith missions, National Socialism, “Deutsche Christen”, Confessing Church, racism, antisemitism, antibolschewism, Paul Burkhardt, Theophil Krawielitzki, Kurt Zimmermann, Ernst Buddeberg, Joachim Müller, Hugo Löwenstein, Jaija Sattler, Sinti and Roma, authoritarian obedience, apolitical attitude. |
| Subjects: | A Church Mission History > Biographies B Mission Theology/Theory > Anti-Gypsyism |
| Divisions: | Germany |
| Depositing User: | Users 2 not found. |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Sep 2019 07:33 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Sep 2019 07:33 |
| URI: | https://r.ceeamsprints.brunner.at/id/eprint/87 |
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