Thomas Großbölting in Memorium
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 31, Number 1 (Spring 2025) Thomas Großbölting in Memorium By Mark Edward Ruff, Saint Louis University The fields of German history and religious history suffered a devastating and irreplaceable loss on February 11, 2025. The…
Conference Report: Seminar, Religion and Secularism in Germany from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 30, Number 4 (Winter 2024) Conference Report: Seminar, Religion and Secularism in Germany from the Nineteenth Century to the Present, German Studies Association, September 2024 By Mark Edward Ruff, St. Louis University This seminar, which…
Review of Olaf Blaschke and Thomas Großbölting, eds., Was glaubten die Deutschen zwischen 1933 and 1945? Religion und Politik im Nationalsozialismus
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 27, Number 1 (March 2021) Review of Olaf Blaschke and Thomas Großbölting, eds., Was glaubten die Deutschen zwischen 1933 and 1945? Religion und Politik im Nationalsozialismus (Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, 2020). 540 pages. ISBN…
“The German Catholic Bishops and the Second World War: A Historic Reappraisal”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 26, Number 1/2 (June 2020) “The German Catholic Bishops and the Second World War: A Historic Reappraisal” By Mark Edward Ruff, Saint Louis University On May 8, 2020, the 75th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s surrender…
Review of Mark Edward Ruff, The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945-1980
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 4 (December 2017) Review of Mark Edward Ruff, The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945-1980 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017). Pp. 408. ISBN 9781107190665. Reviewed by Robert P. Ericksen Mark Edward…
Conference Report: “Religious Revivals in 19th and 20th century Germany”
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 23, Number 4 (December 2017) Conference Report: “Religious Revivals in 19th and 20th century Germany,” German Studies Association, 2017 By Mark Edward Ruff, Saint Louis University Thirteen historians, religious studies scholars and literary specialists gathered…
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…
Review of Mark Riebling, Church of Spies: The Vatican’s Secret War against Hitler
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 21, Number 4 (December 2015) Review of Mark Riebling, Church of Spies: The Vatican’s Secret War against Hitler (New York: Basic Books, 2015), 375 Pp. ISBN 9780465022298. By Mark Edward Ruff, St. Louis University That…
Conference Report: Religion in Germany in the 20th Century: Paradigm Shifts and Changing Methodologies
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 20, Number 4 (December 2014) Conference Report: Religion in Germany in the 20th Century: Paradigm Shifts and Changing Methodologies. Seminar at the Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, September 19-21, 2014 By Mark Edward Ruff,…
Review of Akten deutscher Bischöfe seit 1945, Kommission für Zeitgeschichte
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 19, Number 2 (June 2013) Review of Akten deutscher Bischöfe seit 1945, Kommission für Zeitgeschichte Ulrich Helbach (Bearbeitet), Akten deutscher Bischöfe seit 1945: Westliche Besatzungszonen, 1945 – 1947, I (Paderborn: Schöningh Verlag, 2012), 764 pp. Ulrich Helbach…
Conference Report: Catholicism in Germany: Contemporary History and the Present
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 19, Number 1 (March 2013) Conference Report: Catholicism in Germany: Contemporary History and the Present (Katholizismus in Deutschland – Zeitgeschichte und Gegenwart), October 26 – 27, 2012, Katholische Akademie in Bayern By Mark Edward Ruff,…
New Sources on the Roman Catholic Church and the Holocaust: Summer Research Workshop for Scholars
Contemporary Church History Quarterly Volume 19, Number 1 (March 2013) New Sources on the Roman Catholic Church and the Holocaust: Summer Research Workshop for Scholars, August 13-24, 2012, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC By Mark…
Article Note: Olaf Blaschke, “Geschichtsdeutung und Vergangenheitspolitik. Die Kommission für Zeitgeschichte und das Netzwerk kirchenloyaler Katholizismusforscher, 1945-2000”
ACCH Quarterly Vol. 18, No. 1, March 2012 Article Note: Olaf Blaschke, “Geschichtsdeutung und Vergangenheitspolitik. Die Kommission für Zeitgeschichte und das Netzwerk kirchenloyaler Katholizismusforscher, 1945-2000,” in Thomas Pittrof and Walter Schmitz, eds., Freie Anerkennung übergeschichtlicher Bindungen. Katholische Geschichtswahrnehmung im deutschsprachigen…
Review of Nicolai Hannig, Die Religion der Öffentlichkeit: Kirche, Religion und Medien in der Bundesrepublik 1945- 1980
ACCH Quarterly Vol. 17, No. 3, September 2011 Review of Nicolai Hannig, Die Religion der Öffentlichkeit: Kirche, Religion und Medien in der Bundesrepublik 1945- 1980 (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2010), 454 Pp., ISBN 978-3-8353-0799-5. By Mark Edward Ruff, Saint Louis University Nicolai…