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Richard Steigmann-Gall (Born October 3, 1965) is an
The Holy Reich: Nazi conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945.
' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
p. 3.
/ref> ''The Holy Reich'' has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian.Steigmann-Gall, Richard (2007)
"Christianity and the Nazi Movement: A Response."
42 (2): 185–211. A
Faculty Page at Kent University
Dissertation: "The Holy Reich: Religious Dimensions of Nazi Ideology, 1919-1945"
(1999)
Introduction to ''The Holy Reich''
- courtesy
Christianity and the Nazi Movement: A response to critics
- by Richard Steigmann-Gall
Richard Steigmann-Gall Interview
- by Stephen Crittenden, ''The Religion Report'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Steigmann-Gall, Richard 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Kent State University faculty Historians of Nazism University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni University of Toronto alumni Living people 1965 births American male non-fiction writers
Richard Steigmann-Gall (Born October 3, 1965) is an Associate Professor
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Overview
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of History
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at Kent State University
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, and the former Director of the Jewish Studies Program from 2004 to 2010.
Education
He received his BA in history in 1989 and MA inEuropean History
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in 1992 from the University of Michigan
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, and his PhD in European History in 1999 from the University of Toronto
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.
Career
On September 30, 2009 Steigmann-Gall was featured on the ''History Channel
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'' in a sensationalist
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documentary discussing Hitler's religious views.
Since 2016, Steigmann-Gall has turned his attention to the question of fascism in the United States
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. He published a scholarly article named "Star-Spangled Fascism" in the journal ''Social History
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'' that explores the traditions of American historical writing, and the ways in which the American far right in the period between World Wars I and II can be called fascist
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in spite of these traditions. For the last several years, he has turned to public commentary on the question of fascism in contemporary American politics. His articles on this can be found in '' Tikkun'', the ''Huffington Post
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'', ''Politico
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'', and ''Jacobin
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''.
''The Holy Reich''
In 2003, Steigmann-Gall published ''The Holy Reich'' throughCambridge University Press
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, which explored Nazi
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conceptions of Christianity
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. ''The Holy Reich'' argues that the Nazi Party
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was not anti-Christian
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as popularly understood, nor was it in any sense a paganist
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movement. Rather, Steigmann-Gall writes that many in the Nazi Party
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leadership
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believed themselves and their movement to be inherently Christian (positive Christianity
Positive Christianity (german: Positives Christentum) was a movement within Nazi Germany which promoted the belief that the racial purity of the German people should be maintained by mixing racialistic Nazi ideology with either fundamental or s ...
).Steigmann-Gall, Richard (2003). The Holy Reich: Nazi conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945.
' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
p. 3.
/ref> ''The Holy Reich'' has been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian.Steigmann-Gall, Richard (2007)
"Christianity and the Nazi Movement: A Response."
42 (2): 185–211. A
symposium
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on the book was published by the ''Journal of Contemporary History
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'' in 2007.
See also
* Adolf Hitler's religious views *German Christians (movement)
German Christians (german: Deutsche Christen) were a pressure group and a movement within the German Evangelical Church that existed between 1932 and 1945, aligned towards the antisemitic, racist and ''Führerprinzip'' ideological principles ...
* Positive Christianity
Positive Christianity (german: Positives Christentum) was a movement within Nazi Germany which promoted the belief that the racial purity of the German people should be maintained by mixing racialistic Nazi ideology with either fundamental or s ...
* Religion in Nazi Germany
A census in May 1939, six years into the Nazi era and after the annexation of mostly Catholic Austria and mostly Catholic Czechoslovakia into Germany, indicates that 54% of the population considered itself Protestant, 41% considered itself Ca ...
* Religious aspects of Nazism
Historians, political scientists and philosophers have studied Nazism with a specific focus on its religious and pseudoreligious, pseudo-religious aspects. It has been debated whether Nazism would constitute a political religion, and there has al ...
References
External links
Faculty Page at Kent University
Dissertation: "The Holy Reich: Religious Dimensions of Nazi Ideology, 1919-1945"
(1999)
Introduction to ''The Holy Reich''
- courtesy
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII of England, King Henry VIII in 1534, it is the oldest university press
A university press is an academic publishing hou ...
Christianity and the Nazi Movement: A response to critics
- by Richard Steigmann-Gall
Richard Steigmann-Gall Interview
- by Stephen Crittenden, ''The Religion Report'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Steigmann-Gall, Richard 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Kent State University faculty Historians of Nazism University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni University of Toronto alumni Living people 1965 births American male non-fiction writers