Lecture: Nationalism and Religion (Series: Christ at Six)

  • chair:

    Vortrag: Nationalismus und Religion (Reihe: Christus um Sechs)

  • place:

    Evang. Christuskirche Karlsruhe, Andachtsraum, Riefstahlstraße 2, 76133 Karlsruhe.

  • sws:

    20. Januar 2019

  • Referent:

    Prof. Dr. Rolf-Ulrich Kunze

  • Zeit:

    18.00

  • Quelle:

    Gemeindebrief Christuskirche Karlsruhe, 114 (2018), Dez. 2018-Feb. 2019, S. 9.

  • The relationship between nationalism and religion is determined in historical research by the debate with the secularization theory. In this view, the connections of the meta-ideology of nationalism with forms of revelatory religion appear primarily as variations of inner-worldly redemptive substitute religion. However, this self-fulfilling phrophecy loses sight of the highly problematic forms of sacralization of the political, in which especially Reformation theologians directly participated, e.g. German-Christian theology in National Socialism as a bridge between Luther and Hitler. The lecture puts this contradiction up for discussion.


    Literature: Rolf-Ulrich Kunze, Nationalismus, forthcoming Stuttgart 2019; Peter van der Veer, Nationalism and religion, in: The Oxford Handbook of the history of nationalism, ed. by John Breuilly, Oxford/UK 2016 (first ibid., 2013), pp. 655-671.