In God's name : genocide and religion in the twentieth century
Title:
In God's name : genocide and religion in the twentieth century
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Omer Bartov and Phyllis Mack.
Publication Information:
New York : Berghahn Books, 2001.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (vii, 401 pages)
ISBN:
9781782381655
Abstract:
Despite the widespread trends of secularization in the 20th century, religion has played an important role in several outbreaks of genocide since the First World War. And yet, not many scholars have looked either at the religious aspects of modern genocide, or at the manner in which religion has taken a position on mass killing. This collection of essays addresses this hiatus by examining the intersection between religion and state-organized murder in the cases of the Armenian, Jewish, Rwandan, and Bosnian genocides. Rather than a comprehensive overview, it offers a series of discrete, yet closely related case studies, that shed light on three fundamental aspects of this issue: the use of religion to legitimize and motivate genocide; the potential of religious faith to encourage physical and spiritual resistance to mass murder; and finally, the role of religion in coming to terms with the legacy of atrocity.
Local Note:
JSTOR
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Omer Bartov and Phyllis Mack -- pt. 1. The perspectives : theology and practice. Religion, ethnicity, and nationalism : Armenians, Turks, and the end of the Ottoman Empire / Ronald Grigor Suny -- Genocide, religion, and Gerhard Kittel : protestant theologians face the Third Reich / Robert P. Erickson -- When Jesus was an Aryan : the protestant church and antisemitic propaganda / Susannah Heschel -- A pure conscience is good enough : Bishop von Galen and resistance to Nazism / Beth Griech-Polelle -- Between God and Hitler : German military chaplains and the crimes of the Third Reich / Doris L. Bergen -- Christian churches and genocide in Rwanda / Timothy Longman -- The churches and the genocide in the East African Great Lakes Region / Charles de Lespinay -- Kosovo mythology and the Bosnian genocide / Michael Sells -- pt. 2. Survival : rescuers and victims. The absorption of Armenian women and children into Muslim households of the Armenian genocide / Ara Sarafian -- Transcending boundaries : Hungarian Roman Catholic religious women and the "Persecuted ones" / Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen -- Denial and defiance in the work of Rabbi Regina Jones / Katharina von Kellenbach -- A personal account / Gabor Vermes.
pt. 3. Aftermath : politics, faith, and representation. Zionist and Israeli attitudes toward the Armenian genocide / Yair Auron -- Faith, religious practices, and genocide : Armenians and Jews in France following World War I and II / Maud Mandel -- Orthodox Jewish thought in the wake of the Holocaust : Tamim Pa'alo of 1947 / Gershon Greenberg -- Jewish-American artists and the Holocaust : the responses of two generations / Matthew Baigell -- The journey to Poland / Michal Govrin -- Conclusion / Ian Kershaw.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.