Storiografia cattolica tedesca e Shoah: Memoria religiosa e politica della storia / German Catholic Historiography and the Holocaust: Religious Memory and Politics of Remembrance

The essay addresses and examines the approach of Catholic historians to the Shoah between the 1950s and the beginning of the 21st century in Germany. The relationship between German historiography and the Catholic perception of the Shoah is crucial to understanding the relationship between the post-...

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Main Author: Faggioli, Massimo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Viella Editrice 2011-04-01
Series:Storicamente
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Online Access:http://www.storicamente.org/07_dossier/antisemitismo/faggioli.pdf
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description The essay addresses and examines the approach of Catholic historians to the Shoah between the 1950s and the beginning of the 21st century in Germany. The relationship between German historiography and the Catholic perception of the Shoah is crucial to understanding the relationship between the post-World War II cultural landscape in Germany and what this German Catholic culture gave to contemporary Catholicism. This legacy is even more important since the Catholic Church elected a German pope in 2005, after the long pontificate of John Paul II, which was decisive in reshaping the historical and theological understanding of the Shoah.
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spelling doaj.art-02fe7b6d7af045f0b2fe85edcb1be6c72023-09-03T01:07:31ZengViella EditriceStoricamente1825-411X2011-04-01719Storiografia cattolica tedesca e Shoah: Memoria religiosa e politica della storia / German Catholic Historiography and the Holocaust: Religious Memory and Politics of RemembranceFaggioli, MassimoThe essay addresses and examines the approach of Catholic historians to the Shoah between the 1950s and the beginning of the 21st century in Germany. The relationship between German historiography and the Catholic perception of the Shoah is crucial to understanding the relationship between the post-World War II cultural landscape in Germany and what this German Catholic culture gave to contemporary Catholicism. This legacy is even more important since the Catholic Church elected a German pope in 2005, after the long pontificate of John Paul II, which was decisive in reshaping the historical and theological understanding of the Shoah.http://www.storicamente.org/07_dossier/antisemitismo/faggioli.pdfAntisemitismShoahCatholicismHolocaustHistory of Historiography
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Storiografia cattolica tedesca e Shoah: Memoria religiosa e politica della storia / German Catholic Historiography and the Holocaust: Religious Memory and Politics of Remembrance
Storicamente
Antisemitism
Shoah
Catholicism
Holocaust
History of Historiography
title Storiografia cattolica tedesca e Shoah: Memoria religiosa e politica della storia / German Catholic Historiography and the Holocaust: Religious Memory and Politics of Remembrance
title_full Storiografia cattolica tedesca e Shoah: Memoria religiosa e politica della storia / German Catholic Historiography and the Holocaust: Religious Memory and Politics of Remembrance
title_fullStr Storiografia cattolica tedesca e Shoah: Memoria religiosa e politica della storia / German Catholic Historiography and the Holocaust: Religious Memory and Politics of Remembrance
title_full_unstemmed Storiografia cattolica tedesca e Shoah: Memoria religiosa e politica della storia / German Catholic Historiography and the Holocaust: Religious Memory and Politics of Remembrance
title_short Storiografia cattolica tedesca e Shoah: Memoria religiosa e politica della storia / German Catholic Historiography and the Holocaust: Religious Memory and Politics of Remembrance
title_sort storiografia cattolica tedesca e shoah memoria religiosa e politica della storia german catholic historiography and the holocaust religious memory and politics of remembrance
topic Antisemitism
Shoah
Catholicism
Holocaust
History of Historiography
url http://www.storicamente.org/07_dossier/antisemitismo/faggioli.pdf
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