Article Note: Samuel Koehne. “Religion in the Early Nazi Milieu: Towards a Greater Understanding of ‘Racist Culture’”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 1/2 (June 2017) Article Note: Samuel Koehne. “Religion in the Early Nazi Milieu: Towards a Greater Understanding of ‘Racist Culture,’” Journal of Contemporary History. Prepublished January 1, 2016, DOI: 10.1177/0022009416669420. By Heath Spencer,…
Conference Report: “Re-Forming the Church of the Future: Bonhoeffer, Luther, Public Ethics,” Union Theological Seminary, New York, April 7-9, 2017
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 1/2 (June 2017) Conference Report: “Re-Forming the Church of the Future: Bonhoeffer, Luther, Public Ethics,” Union Theological Seminary, New York, April 7-9, 2017 By Katie Day, United Lutheran Seminary, Philadelphia On this spring weekend…
Conference Report: “Catholic Antisemitism and German National Socialism”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 1/2 (June 2017) Conference Report: “Catholic Antisemitism and German National Socialism,” Panel Presentation, Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association, January 6, 2017 By Jeremy Stephen Roethler, Texas State University This session…
Conference Report: 500 Years of Reformation: Jews and Protestants – Judaism and Protestantism
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 1/2 (June 2017) Conference Report: 500 Years of Reformation: Jews and Protestants – Judaism and Protestantism, Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem, February 12-14, 2017 By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University This year’s annual conference of…
Conference Report: “Election and Probation: Religious Elites and Social Leadership”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 1/2 (June 2017) Conference Report: “Election and Probation: Religious Elites and Social Leadership,” Bensheim Dialogue, Institut für Personengeschichte (Bensheim), April 20-22, 2017. By Dirk Schuster, University of Potsdam For the eighth time, the…
Call for Papers: Mennonites and the Holocaust, Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas, March 16 and 17, 2018
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 1/2 (June 2017) Call for Papers: Mennonites and the Holocaust, Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas, March 16 and 17, 2018 Proposal deadline: Sept. 1, 2017 mla.bethelks.edu/MennosandHolocaust The history of Mennonites as victims of violence in the…
Article Note: Martina Cucchiara, “The Bonds That Shame: Reconsidering the Foreign Exchange Trials Against the Catholic Church in Nazi Germany, 1935/36”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 4 (December 2016) Article Note: Martina Cucchiara, “The Bonds That Shame: Reconsidering the Foreign Exchange Trials Against the Catholic Church in Nazi Germany, 1935/36,” European History Quarterly 45, no 4 (2015): 689-712. By…
Conference Report: “The Confessing Church’s Memorandum of May 28, 1936 and the Murder of Friedrich Weißler (1891-1937) in the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp,” Topography of Terror
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 4 (December 2016) Conference Report: “The Confessing Church’s Memorandum of May 28, 1936 and the Murder of Friedrich Weißler (1891-1937) in the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp,” Topography of Terror, Berlin, May 28, 2016 By…
Conference Report: “Ecumenical Cooperation and World Politics”. The 2016 Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte/Contemporary Church History Conference
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 4 (December 2016) Conference Report: “Ecumenical Cooperation and World Politics”. The 2016 Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte/Contemporary Church History Conference, Helsinki, October 26-28, 2016 By Robert P. Ericksen On Oct. 26-28, 2016, Professors Aila Lauha and…
Conference Report: “Germany and the Confessional Divide, 1871-1989,” Seminar at the Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 4 (December 2016) Conference Report: “Germany and the Confessional Divide, 1871-1989,” Seminar at the Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, 2016, San Diego, California By Mark Edward Ruff, St. Louis University On the…
Conference Report: 14th biennial Lessons & Legacies Conference
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 4 (December 2016) Conference Report: 14th biennial Lessons & Legacies Conference, sponsored by the Holocaust Education Foundation at Northwestern University and Claremont McKenna College, November 3-6, 2016, Claremont, CA By Martina Cucchiara, Bluffton University…
Conference Report: 30th Biennial Meeting of the Conference on Faith and History
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 4 (December 2016) Conference Report: 30th Biennial Meeting of the Conference on Faith and History, Regent University, Virginia Beach, VA, October 20-22, 2016 By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Under the title of “Marching…
Article Note: Samuel Koehne, “Were the National Socialists a Völkisch Party? Paganism, Christianity, and the Nazi Christmas”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 3 (September 2016) Article Note: Samuel Koehne, “Were the National Socialists a Völkisch Party? Paganism, Christianity, and the Nazi Christmas,” Central European History 47, no. 4 (2014): 760-790. By Christopher Probst, Washington University in St….
Article Note: Todd Weir, “The Christian Front against Godlessness: Anti-Secularism and the Demise of the Weimar Republic, 1928-1933”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 3 (September 2016) Article Note: Todd Weir, “The Christian Front against Godlessness: Anti-Secularism and the Demise of the Weimar Republic, 1928-1933,” Past and Present 229 (Nov. 2015): 201-238. By Heath Spencer, Seattle University Though…
Article Note: Thomas Brodie, “The German Catholic Diaspora in the Second World War”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 22, Number 3 (September 2016) Article Note: Thomas Brodie, “The German Catholic Diaspora in the Second World War,” German History 33, no. 1 (March 2015): 80-99. By Kyle Jantzen, Ambrose University Thomas Brodie of Jesus College,…