Von der Trägheit der Memoria

Boettcher, Susan R.

doi:10.14220/9783666355752.47

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The Hybrid Tasks Of Evangelical Culture1

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“…Because these re-inscriptions were not uniformly successful when measured by the coherence of doctrine, we can pinpoint their traces. Elsewhere, I have termed this process of Lutheran re-inscription of uncooperative or stubborn cultural loci ''cultural inertia'' (Boettcher, 2003(Boettcher, , 2004. This re-inscription, an active, reciprocal relationship between colonized and colonizer, becomes evident in the genres and practices of commemoration of Martin Luther after his death (1546).…”

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Post-Colonial Reformation? Hybridity in 16th-Century Christianity

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2005

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The author considers the utility of post-colonial theory, specifically Homi Bhabha’s notion of hybridity, for its conceptualization of religious diversity and transformation in the German Reformation. She argues that an explicit discourse on the respective ‘‘purity’’ of the confessions should be read in the context of cultural practices that draw not on signs of difference and purity but on cultural commonalities and thus constitute hybridities. This process can be seen in the commemoration of Luther’s death, which relies on traditional Catholic notions of the good Christian death to support its evangelical claims. Using ‘‘hybridity’’ may be a way to circumvent diffculties in the confessionalization paradigm.

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confidence: 99%