Architectural and Website Note: “Lernort Garnisonkirche” (“Potsdam Garrison Church Site of Learning”)
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 4 (December 2021) Architectural and Website Note: “Lernort Garnisonkirche” (“Potsdam Garrison Church Site of Learning”) By Philipp Oswalt, Universität Kassel; translated by Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University The tower of the Potsdam Garrison Church,…
Webinar Note: Humanitarian Entanglements: A Report on Recent Research on Mennonite Central Committee, Mennonite Refugees, and the Legacies of National Socialism
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 4 (December 2021) Webinar Note: Humanitarian Entanglements: A Report on Recent Research on Mennonite Central Committee, Mennonite Refugees, and the Legacies of National Socialism, November 4, 2021 By Alain Epp Weaver, MCC Since…
Conference Report: “Let Us Solace Ourselves with Love:” Women, Religion, and Emotions in Modern Germany
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 4 (December 2021) Conference Report: “Let Us Solace Ourselves with Love:” Women, Religion, and Emotions in Modern Germany, German Studies Association Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN and Virtual, September 30-October 3, 2021 By Martina Cucchiara, Bluffton University…
Conference Report: “Nazi Germany, International Protestantism, and the German Churches”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 4 (December 2021) Conference Report: “Nazi Germany, International Protestantism, and the German Churches,” German Studies Association Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN and virtual, October 1, 2021. By Blake McKinney, Texas Baptist College After a…
Webinar Announcement: The Holocaust-Era Archives of Pope Pius XII: The State of the Question
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 3 (September 2021) Webinar Announcement: The Holocaust-Era Archives of Pope Pius XII: The State of the Question The Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College, the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad…
Conference Report: Martin Niemöller und seine internationale Rezeption – Martin Niemöller and his international reception
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 2 (June 2021) Conference Report: Martin Niemöller und seine internationale Rezeption – Martin Niemöller and his international reception, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, April 27-28, 2021 By Michael Heymel, Independent Scholar and Central Archives of the…
Call for Editors
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 1 (March 2021) Call for Editors The editors of Contemporary Church History Quarterly would like to invite applications for up to five new positions on the editorial team. We would welcome scholars who…
The German Bishops in the World War: The English Text
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 3 (September 2020) The German Bishops in the World War: The English Text In the March 2020 issue of Contemporary Church History Quarterly, we featured two analyses of the German Bishops Conference statement, “Deutsche…
Ordinary Men and Ordinary Bishops: The Catholic Church during the Second World War
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 1/2 (June 2020) Ordinary Men and Ordinary Bishops: The Catholic Church during the Second World War By Olaf Blaschke, University of Münster The following commentary examines the April 29, 2020, publication of “Deutsche Bischöfe…
Review of Benjamin Ziemann, Martin Niemöller. Ein Leben in Opposition
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 1/2 (June 2020) Review of Benjamin Ziemann, Martin Niemöller. Ein Leben in Opposition (Munich: DVA, 2019). 640 pages. ISBN: 978-3-421-04712-0. By Hansjörg Buss, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen; translated by Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University At Christmas…
Review of Sabine Arend and Insa Eschebach, eds., Ravensbrück: Christliche Frauen im Konzentrationslager 1939-1945
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 4 (December 2019) Review of Sabine Arend and Insa Eschebach, eds., Ravensbrück: Christliche Frauen im Konzentrationslager 1939-1945 (Berlin: Metropol, 2018). Pp. 294. ISBN: 9783863313821. By Christina Matzen, University of Toronto Ravensbrück: Christliche Frauen…
Conference Report: “Soldiers, Sex, Chaplains, and Horses: A Panel on the Wehrmacht in Honor of Gerhard L. Weinberg”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 4 (December 2019) Conference Report: “Soldiers, Sex, Chaplains, and Horses: A Panel on the Wehrmacht in Honor of Gerhard L. Weinberg,” German Studies Association, Portland, OR, October 2019. By Christina Matzen, University of…
Call for Applications: Confronting Difficult Issues around Religion and the Holocaust
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 4 (December 2019) Call for Applications: Confronting Difficult Issues around Religion and the Holocaust June 15–19, 2020 Application deadline: February 14, 2020 The Programs on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust of the United…
Conference Report: 49th Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 25, Number 1 (March 2019) Conference Report: 49th Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches Rebecca Carter-Chand, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The 49th Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches…