The Science of Religions in a Fascist State

Rudolf Otto and Jakob Wilhelm Hauer During the Third Reich

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4372174
AutoresGregory D Alles (0000-0001-8788-8767, McDaniel College, autor de correspondencia)
Año2002
Volumen32
Número3
Páginas177-204
Fecha de publicación2002-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaReligion (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0048-721X • E-ISSN: 1096-1151
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1006/reli.2002.0401
OpenAlexW2051395742
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas19

The German science of religions of the early twentieth century grew from the seeds of German idealism and Romanticism: anti-rationalism, anti-materialism, vitalism, experientialism, and ardent nationalism. In many accounts, National Socialism grew from these seeds, too. This essay examines the actual relationship between the science of religions and Nazism by examining the two most prominent German scientists of religions during the period, Rudolf Otto and Jakob Wilhelm Hauer. In important aspects Otto and Hauer pursued the same religio-scientific programs, but they realised it differently and so exemplify two different relationships between the science of religions and the National Socialist state

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