History, Religion, and Antisemitism

History, Religion, and Antisemitism

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  • Author: Gavin I. Langmuir
  • Publisher: Univ of California Press
  • ISBN: 9780520912267
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 396

Gavin I. Langmuir's work on the formation and nature of antisemitism has earned him an international reputation. In History, Religion, and Antisemitism he bravely confronts the problems that arise when historians have to describe and explain religious phenomena, as any historian of antisemitism must. How, and to what extent, can the historian be objective? Is it possible to discuss Christian attitudes toward Jews, for example, without adopting the historical explanations of those whose thoughts and actions one is discussing? What, exactly, does the historian mean by "religion" or "religious"? Langmuir's original and stimulating responses to these questions reflect his inquiry into the approaches of anthropology, sociology, and psychology and into recent empirical research on the functioning of the mind and the nature of thought. His distinction between religiosity, a property of individuals, and religion, a social phenomenon, allows him to place unusual emphasis on the role of religious doubts and tensions and the irrationality they can produce. Defining antisemitism as irrational beliefs about Jews, he distinguishes Christian anti-Judaism from Christian antisemitism, demonstrates that antisemitism emerged in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries because of rising Christian doubts, and sketches how the revolutionary changes in religion and mentality in the modern period brought new faiths, new kinds of religious doubt, and a deadlier expression of antisemitism. Although he developed it in dealing with the difficult question of antisemitism, Langmuir's approach to religious history is important for historians in all areas.


Toward a Definition of Antisemitism

Toward a Definition of Antisemitism

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  • Author: Gavin I. Langmuir
  • Publisher: Univ of California Press
  • ISBN: 9780520908512
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 440

Toward a Definition of Antisemitism offers new contributions by Gavin I. Langmuir to the history of antisemitism, together with some that have been published separately. The collection makes Langmuir's innovative work on the subject available to scholars in medieval and Jewish history and religious studies. The underlying question that unites the book is: what is antisemitism, where and when did it emerge, and why? After two chapters that highlight the failure of historians until recently to depict Jews and attitudes toward them fairly, the majority of the chapters are historical studies of crucial developments in the legal status of Jews and in beliefs about them during the Middle Ages. Two concluding chapters provide an overview. In the first, the author summarizes the historical developments, indicating concretely when and where antisemitism as he defines it emerged. In the second, Langmuir criticizes recent theories about prejudice and racism and develops his own general theory about the nature and dynamics of antisemitism.


Religion, Ethnonationalism, and Antisemitism in the Era of the Two World Wars

Religion, Ethnonationalism, and Antisemitism in the Era of the Two World Wars

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  • Author: Kevin P. Spicer
  • Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • ISBN: 0228010209
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 384

In the wake of the devastating First World War, leaders of the victorious powers reconfigured the European continent, resulting in new understandings of nation, state, and citizenship. Religious identity, symbols, and practice became tools for politicians and church leaders alike to appropriate as instruments to define national belonging, often to the detriment of those outside the faith tradition. Religion, Ethnonationalism, and Antisemitism in the Era of the Two World Wars places the interaction between religion and ethnonationalism – a particular articulation of nationalism based upon an imagined ethnic community – at the centre of its analysis, offering a new lens through which to analyze how nationalism, ethnicity, and race became markers of inclusion and exclusion. Those who did not embrace the same ethnonationalist vision faced ostracization and persecution, with Jews experiencing pervasive exclusion and violence as centuries of antisemitic Christian rhetoric intertwined with right-wing nationalist extremism. The thread of antisemitism as a manifestation of ethnonationalism is woven through each of the essays, along with the ways in which individuals sought to critique religious ethnonationalism and the violence it inspired. With case studies from the United States, France, Italy, Germany, Finland, Croatia, Ukraine, and Romania, Religion, Ethnonationalism, and Antisemitism in the Era of the Two World Wars thoroughly explores the confluence of religion, race, ethnicity, and antisemitism that led to the annihilative destruction of the Second World War and the Holocaust, challenging readers to identify and confront the inherent dangers of narrowly defined ideologies.


Antisemitism, Its History and Causes

Antisemitism, Its History and Causes

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  • Author: Bernard Lazare
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Antisemitism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 398


Christian Antisemitism

Christian Antisemitism

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  • Author: William Nicholls
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
  • ISBN: 1568215193
  • Category : Antisemitism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 530

In Christian Antisemitism: A History of Hate, Professor William Nicholls, a former minister in the Anglican Church and the founder of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of British Columbia, presents his stunning research, stating that Christian teaching is primarily responsible for antisemitism.


Constantine's Sword

Constantine's Sword

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  • Author: James Carroll
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • ISBN: 9780618219087
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 774

A rare book that combines searing passion with a subject that has affected all of our lives. "Chicago Tribune" Novelist, cultural critic, and former priest James Carroll marries history with memoir as he maps the two-thousand-year course of the Church s battle against Judaism and faces the crisis of faith it has sparked in his own life. Fascinating, brave, and sometimes infuriating ("Time"), this dark history is more than a chronicle of religion. It is the central tragedy of Western civilization, its fault lines reaching deep into our culture to create a deeply felt work ("San Francisco Chronicle") as Carroll wrangles with centuries of strife and tragedy to reach a courageous and affecting reckoning with difficult truths."


Anti-Judaism

Anti-Judaism

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  • Author: David Nirenberg
  • Publisher: Constellation
  • ISBN: 1781852960
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 741

"This incisive history upends the complacency that confines anti-Judaism to the ideological extremes in the Western tradition. With deep learning and elegance, David Nirenberg shows how foundational anti-Judaism is to the history of the West"--Amazon.


From Anti-Judaism to Anti-Semitism

From Anti-Judaism to Anti-Semitism

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  • Author: Robert Chazan
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1107152461
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 271

This book traces the hardening of Christian attitudes to Jews, Judiasm and their history during the second half of the Middle Ages.


The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism

The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism

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  • Author: Steven Katz
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1108787657
  • Category : Political Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 543

A History of Anti-Semitism examines the history, culture and literature of antisemitism from antiquity to the present. With contributions from an international team of scholars, whose essays were specially commissioned for this volume, it covers the long history of antisemitism starting with ancient Greece and Egypt, through the anti-Judaism of early Christianity, and the medieval era in both the Christian and Muslim worlds when Jews were defined as 'outsiders,' especially in Christian Europe. This portrayal often led to violence, notably pogroms that often accompanied Crusades, as well as to libels against Jews. The volume also explores the roles of Luther and the Reformation, the Enlightenment, the debate over Jewish emancipation, Marxism, and the social disruptions after World War 1 that led to the rise of Nazism and genocide. Finally, it considers current issues, including the dissemination of hate on social media and the internet and questions of definition and method.


Jews and Judaism in World History

Jews and Judaism in World History

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  • Author: Howard N. Lupovitch
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 113518965X
  • Category : History
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 265

This book is a survey of the history of the Jewish people from biblical antiquity to the present, spanning nearly 2,500 years and traversing five continents. Opening with a broad introduction which addresses key questions of terminology and definition, the book’s ten chapters then go on to explore Jewish history in both its religious and non-religious dimensions. The book explores the social, political and cultural aspects of Jewish history, and examines the changes and continuities across the whole of the Jewish world throughout its long and varied history. Topics covered include: the emergence of Judaism as a religion and way of life the development during the Middle Ages of Judaism as an all-encompassing identity the effect on Jewish life and identity of major changes in Europe and the Islamic world from the mid sixteenth through the end of the nineteenth century the complexity of Jewish life in the twentieth century, the challenge of anti-semitism and the impact of the Holocaust, and the emergence of the current centres of World Jewry in the State of Israel and the New World.