In God's Name: Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth Century

Published by Berghahn Books 2001

In God's Name

Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth Century

Edited by: <a>Omer Bartov</a> and Phyllis Mack

Volume 4 in the series War and Genocide

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782381655

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Despite the widespread trends of secularization in the 20th century, religion has played an important role in several outbreaks of genocide since the First World War. And yet, not many scholars have looked either at the religious aspects of modern genocide, or at the manner in which religion has taken a position on mass killing. This collection of essays addresses this hiatus by examining the intersection between religion and state-organized murder in the cases of the Armenian, Jewish, Rwandan, and Bosnian genocides. Rather than a comprehensive overview, it offers a series of descrete, yet closely related case studies, that shed light on three fundamental aspects of this issue: the use of religion to legitimize and motivate genocide; the potential of religious faith to encourage physical and spiritual resistance to mass murder; and finally, the role of religion in coming to terms with the legacy of atrocity.

Author / Editor information

Omer Bartov is the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. He is the author of Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (2018) along with several other well-regarded scholarly works on the Holocaust and genocide, including Germany’s War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories (2013) and Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine (2015).

Phyllis Mack is Professor of History, Director of Graduate Studies and has been Acting Director of the Institute for Research on Women at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis.

Omer Bartov is the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. He is the author of Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (2018) along with several other well-regarded scholarly works on the Holocaust and genocide, including Germany’s War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories (2013) and Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine (2015).

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INTRODUCTION Omer Bartov and Phyllis Mack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I – The Perpetrators: Theology and Practice
Chapter 1 Religion, Ethnicity, and Nationalism: Armenians, Turks, and the End of the Ottoman Empire Ronald Grigor Suny Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Chapter 2 Genocide, Religion, and Gerhard Kittel: Protestant Theologians Face the Third Reich Robert P. Ericksen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
Chapter 3 When Jesus Was an Aryan: The Protestant Church and Antisemitic Propaganda Susannah Heschel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Chapter 4 A Pure Conscience Is Good Enough: Bishop von Galen and Resistance to Nazism Beth Griech-Polelle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
Chapter 5 Between God and Hitler: German Military Chaplains and the Crimes of the Third Reich Doris L. Bergen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Chapter 6 Christian Churches and Genocide in Rwanda Timothy Longman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Chapter 7 The Churches and the Genocide in the East African Great Lakes Region Charles de Lespinay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Chapter 8 Kosovo Mythology and the Bosnian Genocide Michael Sells Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
II. Survival: Rescuers and Victims
Chapter 9 The Absorption of Armenian Women and Children into Muslim Households As a Structural Component of the Armenian Genocide Ara Sarafian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Chapter 10 Transcending Boundaries: Hungarian Roman Catholic Religious Women and the “Persecuted Ones” Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
Chapter 11 Denial and Defiance in the Work of Rabbi Regina Jonas Katharina von Kellenbach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Chapter 12 A Personal Account Gabor Vermes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
III. Aftermath: Politics, Faith, and Representation
Chapter 13 Zionist and Israeli Attitudes Toward the Armenian Genocide Yair Auron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Chapter 14 Faith, Religious Practices, and Genocide: Armenians and Jews in France following World War I and II Maud Mandel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Chapter 15 Orthodox Jewish Thought in the Wake of the Holocaust: Tamim Pa’alo of 1947 Gershon Greenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	316
Chapter 16 Jewish-American Artists and the Holocaust: The Responses of Two Generations Matthew Baigell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	342
Chapter 17 The Journey to Poland Michal Govrin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	350
AFTERTHOUGHT Some Reflections on Genocide, Religion, and Modernity Ian Kershaw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	372
CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	384
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 416
Keywords: Genocide History

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Published: April 1, 2001
ISBN: 9781782381655