Exclusive Border Crossing: Considerations on Exclusive, Inner-Religious Demarcations

From 1933, the inner Protestant ‘German Christians Church Movement’ from Thuringia took control over some Protestant regional churches in Germany. For the German Christians the main motives of their agitation were the creation of a ‘volkisch’ belief system based on race, Christianity and ‘dejudaizat...

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Published in:Interdisciplinary journal for religion and transformation in contemporary society
Main Author: Schuster, Dirk 1984- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2020]
In: Interdisciplinary journal for religion and transformation in contemporary society
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Protestantism / Deutsche Christen / Germany / Nationalism / Racism / Denomination (Religion) / Exclusion
RelBib Classification:CG Christianity and Politics
CH Christianity and Society
KBB German language area
KDD Protestant Church
Further subjects:B Space
B Social Imaginaries
B Third Reich
B Race
B Protestantism
B Border
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Summary:From 1933, the inner Protestant ‘German Christians Church Movement’ from Thuringia took control over some Protestant regional churches in Germany. For the German Christians the main motives of their agitation were the creation of a ‘volkisch’ belief system based on race, Christianity and ‘dejudaization’ (of Christianity).Based on the theoretical considerations of spaces, boundaries and exclusion, the article uses the example of the German Christians to show under which conditions individuals are denied entry into an imaginary religious space. ‘Exclusivist border crossings,’ as this phenomena is named here on the theoretical perspective, can explain how religious arguments exclude people from entering a religious space such as salvation when the access criteria are linked to birth-related conditions.
ISSN:2364-2807
Contains:Enthalten in: Interdisciplinary journal for religion and transformation in contemporary society
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.30965/23642807-00502009