David Lindenfeld
Biographic Data
| ID | 454264 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Lindenfeld |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Lindenfeld |
| SIGNATURE | LINDENFELD D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Louisiana State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Missionary Spaces
The Taiping and the Aladura
The paper utilizes the comparative method to work towards an understanding of cross-cultural religious interactions that eschews the distinction between so- called traditional and world religions. It highlights the importance of charis- matic authority based on prophetic vision in two disparate geographical and cultural contexts. Both the Taiping Rebellion (1851–64) and the Aladura churches in southwestern Nigeria in the early twentieth century r…
World Christianity and Indigenous Experience
"In this book, David Lindenfeld proposes a new dimension to the study of world history. Here, he explores the global expansion of Christianity since 1500 from the perspectives of the indigenous people who were affected by it, and helped change it, giving them active agency. Integrating the study of religion into world history, his volume surveys indigenous experience in colonial Latin America, Native North America, Africa and the African diaspora…
World Christianity and Indigenous Experience
In this book, David Lindenfeld proposes a new dimension to the study of world history. Here, he explores the global expansion of Christianity since 1500 from the perspectives of the indigenous people who were affected by it, and helped change it, giving them active agency. Integrating the study of religion into world history, his volume surveys indigenous experience in colonial Latin America, Native North America, Africa and the African diaspora,…
John S. Lowry. Big Swords, Jesuits, and Bondelswarts
As the title suggests, Big Swords, Jesuits, and Bondelswarts: Wilhelmine Imperialism, Overseas Resistance, and German Political Catholicism, 1897–1906, is an exceedingly detailed study of a limited slice of German political history, focused on the Catholic Center Party. John S. Lowry nevertheless uses this narrow frame to pose a broad question: To what extent did extra-European resistance to colonialism, which played such a powerful role in Europ…
Cultural Conversions. Unexpected Consequences of Christian Missionary Encounters in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia, written by Sharkey, Heather J
Beyond Conversion and Syncretism
The globalization of Christianity, its spread and appeal to peoples of non- European origin, is by now a well-known phenomenon. Scholars increasingly realize the importance of natives rather than foreign missionaries in the process of evangelization. This volume contributes to the understanding of this process through case studies of encounters with Christianity from the perspectives of the indigenous peoples who converted. More importantly, by e…
Jungian archetypes and the discourse of history
This paper argues that Jung's notion of archetypes can be useful to the theory and practice of history, particularly cultural and intellectual history. It claims that a coherent model of depth psychology is needed to explain how collective states such as identity and memory are internalized by individuals and that Freud's theories, by placing so much emphasis on childhood and the Oedipus complex, do not fill that need. Jung's approach, by focusin…
The Christian Religion in Modern European and World History
Volumes 8 and 9 of the Cambridge History , representing the work of 72 scholars, reflect two major recent historiographical trends: 1) the increased attention paid to religion in modern European history, and 2) the increasing importance of Christianity in as a topic in world history. While these volumes serve to summarize the work already done in the first field, with articles on a wide variety of European countries, they should significantly mov…
The varieties of Sioux Christianity, 1860–1980, in international perspective
The paper analyses the multiple ways in which the Sioux have dealt with missionary Christianity between roughly 1860 and 1980, placing this in an international perspective. It addresses the question of how and why Christianity became pervasive among the Sioux despite the avowed purpose of missionaries to extirpate Native culture. It contends that the churches willy-nilly preserved many elements of that culture and provided leadership opportunitie…
The twists of the linguistic turn
The philosophers Donald Davidson and Jacques Derrida represent the extremes of the linguistic turn. This article explores their relevance for historical theory, as presented in papers by Rüdiger Graf and Keith Jenkins respectively. The differences revolve around the question of whether, and to what extent, one can understand other people, whether in foreign cultures or in the past. Underlying these differences is a commonality: the thesis that un…
The Practical Imagination
Maintaining the Sublime. Heidegger and Adorno
Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien. Heidegger and Adorno, two of the most influential German thinkers of the twentieth century, share certain neglected affinities, a sensibility to religious traces and an inclination for metaphysical speculation as well as an emphasis on the importance of a nonscientific view of nature. Maintaining the Sublime discusses these affinities in the context of a new definition of the sublime as the r…
Religion and the Rise of Historicism
Rewriting the German past
Causality, Chaos Theory, and the End of the Weimar Republic
This article seeks to integrate the roles of structure and human agency in a theory of historical causation, using the fall of the Weimar Republic and in particular Henry Turner's book Hitler's Thirty Days to Power as a case study. Drawing on analogies from chaos theory, it argues that crisis situations in history exhibit sensitive dependence on local conditions, which are always changing. This undermines the distinction between causes and condit…
What Is Enlightenment? Eighteenth-Century Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions
This collection contains the first English translations of a group of important eighteenth-century German essays that address the question, 'What is Enlightenment?'. The book also includes newly translated and newly written interpretive essays by leading historians and philosophers, which examine the origins of eighteenth-century debate on Enlightenment and explore its significance for the present. In recent years, critics from across the politic…
The Transformation of German Academic Medicine, 1750-1820
Introduction 1. Physicians in eighteenth-century Germany 2. Fractures and new alignments 3. Physicians and writers: medical theory and the emergence of the public sphere 4. The art of healing 5. Breaking the shackles of history: the Brunonian revolution in Germany 6. German medicine during the restoration Conclusion: disciplines, professions, and the public sphere Index
Nietzsche, politics & modernity
The Practical Imagination
From General Estate to Special Interest
The Prevalence of Irrational Thinking in the Third Reich
Within the voluminous literature on the Holocaust, a trend has emerged in recent years: a shift of focus from remembrance and commemoration of this horrible event to serious reflection about its significance in a variety of theological, philosophical, historical, and even aesthetic contexts. This shift has not been an easy one, for its practicioners have had to face the widely held view that the Holocaust is unintelligible or incomprehensible, an…
Heidegger, Dilthey, and the Crisis of Historicism
The collapse of historicism was not merely the demise of an academic tradition but signified a shift in the understanding of hermeneutics and metaphysics. Whereas earlier books have explored the rise and dominance of historicism within academic history, this is the first to trace its collapse and to show how it was shaped by larger philosophical and scientific concerns. Charles R. Bambach's lucid account of the demise of historicism within the co…
The Emergence of the Social Sciences, 1642-1792
The Divided Path
With The Divided Path, Allan Mitchell completes his superb trilogy on the German influence in France between the wars of 1870 and 1914. Mitchell's focus here is on the French response to the pathbreaking social legislation passed during the 1880s in imperial Germany under Otto von Bismarck. Operating under a liberal republican regime, France tended to reject the interventionist policies of its imposing neighbor and to seek a distinctly French sol…
The Emergence of the Social Sciences, 1642-1792
The Myth of the Older Historical School of Economics
It is a commonplace of German historiography and the history of economic thought in particular that German economists pursued a Sonderweq in the second half of the nineteenth century, rejecting the theoretical bases of laissez-faire doctrines that were common in Britain and France in favor of a study of economic history. This is generally viewed as taking place in two stages: first, an “older German historical school” that began to question the a…
On Systems and Embodiments as Categories for Intellectual History
purpose of this paper is to offer a model for categorizing the subject matter of intellectual history. While I take it for granted that such a scheme will not please all intellectual historians, I do hope that it will at least make a contribution to calming the queasiness that is currently besetting the field. unsettled state of intellectual history will be evident to anyone familiar with the literature of recent years. Here are a few representat…
Jungian archetypes and the discourse of history
This paper argues that Jung's notion of archetypes can be useful to the theory and practice of history, particularly cultural and intellectual history. It claims that a coherent model of depth psychology is needed to explain how collective states such as identity and memory are internalized by individuals and that Freud's theories, by placing so much emphasis on childhood and the Oedipus complex, do not fill that need. Jung's approach, by focusin…
The varieties of Sioux Christianity, 1860–1980, in international perspective
The paper analyses the multiple ways in which the Sioux have dealt with missionary Christianity between roughly 1860 and 1980, placing this in an international perspective. It addresses the question of how and why Christianity became pervasive among the Sioux despite the avowed purpose of missionaries to extirpate Native culture. It contends that the churches willy-nilly preserved many elements of that culture and provided leadership opportunitie…
The twists of the linguistic turn
The philosophers Donald Davidson and Jacques Derrida represent the extremes of the linguistic turn. This article explores their relevance for historical theory, as presented in papers by Rüdiger Graf and Keith Jenkins respectively. The differences revolve around the question of whether, and to what extent, one can understand other people, whether in foreign cultures or in the past. Underlying these differences is a commonality: the thesis that un…
The Prevalence of Irrational Thinking in the Third Reich
Within the voluminous literature on the Holocaust, a trend has emerged in recent years: a shift of focus from remembrance and commemoration of this horrible event to serious reflection about its significance in a variety of theological, philosophical, historical, and even aesthetic contexts. This shift has not been an easy one, for its practicioners have had to face the widely held view that the Holocaust is unintelligible or incomprehensible, an…
The "Hitler Myth"
1. 'FUHRER OF THE COMING GERMANY': THE HITLER IMAGE IN THE WEIMAR ERA 6. BLITZKRIEG TRIUMPH: HIGH PEAK OF POPULARITY, 1940-1941 9. HITLER'S POPULAR IMAGE AND THE 'JEWISH QUESTION
The Selected Papers of Wolfgang Köhler. Wolfgang Köhler , Mary Henle
Oswald külpe and the Würzburg school
This article is based on research in the Külpe archives in Munich, as well as on analysis of his published works. It addresses itself to some of the unresolved questions regarding Külpe's relation to the Würzburg School and seeks to explain this relation in terms of Külpe's changing philosophical views. Külpe's shift in the late 1890s from Machian phenomenalism to realism led to his interest in the psychology of thinking and may be seen as part o…
The Transformation of Positivism
The "Hitler Myth"
1. 'FUHRER OF THE COMING GERMANY': THE HITLER IMAGE IN THE WEIMAR ERA 6. BLITZKRIEG TRIUMPH: HIGH PEAK OF POPULARITY, 1940-1941 9. HITLER'S POPULAR IMAGE AND THE 'JEWISH QUESTION
Toennies, the Mandarins, and Materialism
On Systems and Embodiments as Categories for Intellectual History
purpose of this paper is to offer a model for categorizing the subject matter of intellectual history. While I take it for granted that such a scheme will not please all intellectual historians, I do hope that it will at least make a contribution to calming the queasiness that is currently besetting the field. unsettled state of intellectual history will be evident to anyone familiar with the literature of recent years. Here are a few representat…
Michel Foucault
Weltgericht oder Revolution
The Divided Path
With The Divided Path, Allan Mitchell completes his superb trilogy on the German influence in France between the wars of 1870 and 1914. Mitchell's focus here is on the French response to the pathbreaking social legislation passed during the 1880s in imperial Germany under Otto von Bismarck. Operating under a liberal republican regime, France tended to reject the interventionist policies of its imposing neighbor and to seek a distinctly French sol…
The Myth of the Older Historical School of Economics
It is a commonplace of German historiography and the history of economic thought in particular that German economists pursued a Sonderweq in the second half of the nineteenth century, rejecting the theoretical bases of laissez-faire doctrines that were common in Britain and France in favor of a study of economic history. This is generally viewed as taking place in two stages: first, an “older German historical school” that began to question the a…
The Emergence of the Social Sciences, 1642-1792
Heidegger, Dilthey, and the Crisis of Historicism
The collapse of historicism was not merely the demise of an academic tradition but signified a shift in the understanding of hermeneutics and metaphysics. Whereas earlier books have explored the rise and dominance of historicism within academic history, this is the first to trace its collapse and to show how it was shaped by larger philosophical and scientific concerns. Charles R. Bambach's lucid account of the demise of historicism within the co…
The Practical Imagination
From General Estate to Special Interest
The Prevalence of Irrational Thinking in the Third Reich
Within the voluminous literature on the Holocaust, a trend has emerged in recent years: a shift of focus from remembrance and commemoration of this horrible event to serious reflection about its significance in a variety of theological, philosophical, historical, and even aesthetic contexts. This shift has not been an easy one, for its practicioners have had to face the widely held view that the Holocaust is unintelligible or incomprehensible, an…
What Is Enlightenment? Eighteenth-Century Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions
This collection contains the first English translations of a group of important eighteenth-century German essays that address the question, 'What is Enlightenment?'. The book also includes newly translated and newly written interpretive essays by leading historians and philosophers, which examine the origins of eighteenth-century debate on Enlightenment and explore its significance for the present. In recent years, critics from across the politic…
The Transformation of German Academic Medicine, 1750-1820
Introduction 1. Physicians in eighteenth-century Germany 2. Fractures and new alignments 3. Physicians and writers: medical theory and the emergence of the public sphere 4. The art of healing 5. Breaking the shackles of history: the Brunonian revolution in Germany 6. German medicine during the restoration Conclusion: disciplines, professions, and the public sphere Index
Nietzsche, politics & modernity
Rewriting the German past
Causality, Chaos Theory, and the End of the Weimar Republic
This article seeks to integrate the roles of structure and human agency in a theory of historical causation, using the fall of the Weimar Republic and in particular Henry Turner's book Hitler's Thirty Days to Power as a case study. Drawing on analogies from chaos theory, it argues that crisis situations in history exhibit sensitive dependence on local conditions, which are always changing. This undermines the distinction between causes and condit…
Religion and the Rise of Historicism
The Practical Imagination
Maintaining the Sublime. Heidegger and Adorno
Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien. Heidegger and Adorno, two of the most influential German thinkers of the twentieth century, share certain neglected affinities, a sensibility to religious traces and an inclination for metaphysical speculation as well as an emphasis on the importance of a nonscientific view of nature. Maintaining the Sublime discusses these affinities in the context of a new definition of the sublime as the r…
The twists of the linguistic turn
The philosophers Donald Davidson and Jacques Derrida represent the extremes of the linguistic turn. This article explores their relevance for historical theory, as presented in papers by Rüdiger Graf and Keith Jenkins respectively. The differences revolve around the question of whether, and to what extent, one can understand other people, whether in foreign cultures or in the past. Underlying these differences is a commonality: the thesis that un…
The varieties of Sioux Christianity, 1860–1980, in international perspective
The paper analyses the multiple ways in which the Sioux have dealt with missionary Christianity between roughly 1860 and 1980, placing this in an international perspective. It addresses the question of how and why Christianity became pervasive among the Sioux despite the avowed purpose of missionaries to extirpate Native culture. It contends that the churches willy-nilly preserved many elements of that culture and provided leadership opportunitie…
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