Der deutsche Protestantismus auf dem Weg zur Demokratie

Scheliha, Arnulf von

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“…Such an interpretation of Christianity as a bulwark for liberal democracy was no matter of course, as prior to 1945 neither Germany's Protestant nor Catholic Churches had been particularly enthusiastic supporters of democracy. German Protestantism, for instance, had been closely associated with the Prussian throne, and even though most of the Protestant establishment would have preferred a Kaiser over a Führer, a majority of them still opted for the NSDAP over the Catholic Zentrum party or "Godless Socialism" in 1933 (Strohm 2011;Scheliha 2019). Catholics, in whom the decades-long persecution as "enemies of the Reich" under Bismarck and the Kaiser had instilled a certain suspicion towards the German state, voted for Hitler at much lower rates, and Catholic authorities remained significantly more critical of the Nazis' racially defined "Positive Christianity" than their Protestant counterparts (Wehler 1994;Gruber 2006).…”

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Nations under God: How Church–State Relations Shape Christian Responses to Right-Wing Populism in Germany and the United States

Cremer

2021

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Right-wing populists across many western countries have markedly intensified their references to Christianity in recent years. However, Christian communities’ reactions to such developments often vary significantly, ranging from disproportionate support in some countries to outspoken opposition in others. This paper explores the role of structural factors, and in particular of Church–State relations, in accounting for some of these differences. Specifically, this article explores how Church–State relations in Germany and the United States have produced different incentives and opportunity structures for faith leaders when facing right-wing populism. Based on quantitative studies, survey data, and 31 in-depth elite interviews, this research suggests that whereas Germany’s system of “benevolent neutrality” encourages highly centralised churches whose leaders perceive themselves as integral part and defenders of the current system, and are therefore both willing and able to create social taboos against right-wing populism, America’s “Wall of separation” favours a de-centralised religious marketplace, in which church leaders are more prone to agree with populists’ anti-elitist rhetoric, and face higher costs and barriers against publicly condemning right-wing populism. Taking such structural factors into greater account when analysing Christian responses to right-wing populism is central to understanding current and future dynamics between politics and religion in western democracies.

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Section: The German Grundgesetz and The System Of Benevolent Neutralitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Nations under God: How Church–State Relations Shape Christian Responses to Right-Wing Populism in Germany and the United States

Cremer

2021

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Lexicographic Treatment of Loanwords from Arabic, Persian, and Turkish in the Bosnian-German Dictionary

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Čović-Filipović

2022

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This paper aims to describe lexicographic strategies for treating loanwords from Arabic, Persian, and Turkish in a productive bilingual Bosnian-German dictionary. In terms of number, stylistic and cultural features, those words significantly characterize the Bosnian language. In lexicography, they have the status of cultural-bound words with a high degree of anisomorphism. We will look into their description in existing monolingual and bilingual dictionaries as well as into their equivalents in literary translations to propose more suitable equivalents. In this paper, we focus in particular on lexicographic treatment strategies of partial and zero equivalence, taking into account the deep cultural embeddedness of Arabic, Turkish and Persian loanwords in the Bosnian language. It will be shown that specific concepts such as “tekija”, for which the German language has no word, and the existing bilingual dictionary provides an equivalent „Muslim monastery“ (Jakić & Hurm 1992: 1053), can be treated by combined strategies to obtain more suitable equivalents, such as the incorporation of the source item into the target language with an additional explanation as well as an explanatory equivalent.

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Der deutsche Protestantismus auf dem Weg zur Demokratie

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Nations under God: How Church–State Relations Shape Christian Responses to Right-Wing Populism in Germany and the United States

Nations under God: How Church–State Relations Shape Christian Responses to Right-Wing Populism in Germany and the United States

Lexicographic Treatment of Loanwords from Arabic, Persian, and Turkish in the Bosnian-German Dictionary

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