Overview
German Catholicism at War explores the mentalities and experiences of German Catholics during the Second World War. Taking the German Home Front, and most specifically, the Rhineland and Westphalia, as its core focus German Catholicism at War examines Catholics' responses to developments in the war, their complex relationships with the Nazi regime, and their religious practices. Drawing on a wide range of source materials stretching from personal letters and diaries to pastoral letters and Gestapo reports, Thomas Brodie breaks new ground in our understanding of the Catholic community in Germany during the Second World War.
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Author: Thomas Brodie (University of Birmingham)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780191865992
ISBN 10: 0191865990
Publication Date: 18 November 2018
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Reviews
Brodie's careful attention to popular attitudes should also motivate other scholars of religious anthropology to probe more deeply the noninstitutional religious sensibilities of Catholics who rejected the traditional viewpoints of their leaders during the war. In sum, German Catholicism at War represents a necessary and well-researched contribution to scholarship about World War II and should serve as inspiration for future work as well. -- Michael E. O'Sullivan, German Studies Review Brodie's work constitutes a major intervention into the history of twentieth-century German Catholic history, and one that casts new light on the understudied relationship between religion and war. -- James Chappel, H-Diplo Brodie's study provides invaluable insights into Catholic religious beliefs and attitudes, revealing the complexity and diversity of opinions throughout the war years ... an informative and valuable work which helps capture some of the diversity of opinions that were embodied in the Catholic 'milieu' as it struggled to maintain its place within the Volksgemeinschaft. -- Beth A. Griech-Polelle, German History Brodie's work constitutes a major intervention into the history of twentieth-century German Catholic history, and one that casts new light on the understudied relationship between religion and war. Brodie shows us that religion is not always an antidote to war, or even a refuge from it. It is, instead, made and remade, as a sociological and institutional reality, by the horrors of war -- and then again by the horrors of peace. -- James Chappel, H-Diplo
Author Information
Thomas Brodie took his BA, MSt, and Doctoral degrees at Hertford College, Oxford, between 2006 and 2014. He was senior scholar of the college during the academic years 2010-2012, and fully funded by the AHRC during his doctoral career. He held a Hanseatic Scholarship at the Centre for Contemporary Historical Research in Potsdam in 2013/14, and taught at the University of Leeds in 2014/15. Since 2015 he has worked as Departmental Lecturer at Jesus College, Oxford. His unpublished doctoral thesis, 'For Christ and Germany': German Catholicism and the Second World War, was officially commended by the judges of the Wiener Library's Fraenkel Prize in 2014.
