Richard Steigmann‐Gall
Biographic Data
| ID | 5111906 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Steigmann‐Gall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Steigmann‐Gall |
| SIGNATURE | GALL R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kent State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Fascism in America: Past and Present
Has fascism arrived in America? In this pioneering book, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Janet Ward have gathered experts to survey the history of fascism in the United States. Although the US established a staunch anti-fascist reputation by defeating the Axis powers in World War II, the unsettling truth is that fascist ideas have long been present within American society. Since the election of Donald Trump as President in 2016, scholars have debated wh…
Star-spangled fascism: American interwar political extremism in comparative perspective
This article demonstrates that American historiography has ignored the concept of Fascism as a category of analysis to help explain and understand the American interwar period. It makes the case that incorporating this concept can help us understand American history in transnational and comparative terms, as part of a larger global history of interwar politics. It is a propaedeutic analysis of existing scholarship – one that does not survey a rec…
Priest, Politician, Collaborator: Jozef Tiso and the Making of Fascist Slovakia, written by James Mace Ward
Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust as Historical Understanding
Alon Confino’s Foundational Pasts is a deeply ambitious and very welcome historiographical intervention into the field of Holocaust studies. Taking stock of the philosophical trends and methodological currents—and also of the empirically detailed microstudies—that have shaped the current state of Holocaust studies, Confino seeks to lay out the forest that the current generation of scholars can easily miss for the trees. This book is thus meant to…
Die Katholiken und das Dritte Reich: Kontroversen und Debatten, ed. Karl-Joseph Hummel and Michael Kissener
In 1980, Klaus Gotto and Konrad Repgen produced a definitive anthology on the Catholic Church under Nazism, with revised editions in 1983 and 1990. The volume under review here is meant to affirm the place of Repgen as the ‘doyen of church historical research’ on his eighty-fifth birthday. The editors, Karl-Joseph Hummel and Michael Kissener, aspire to continue in the same vein, albeit without, they assert, the clear moralising agenda of a previo…
The Nazis’ ‘Positive Christianity’: A Variety of ‘Clerical Fascism’
Christianity and the Nazi Movement: A Response
To varying degrees the contributors to this symposium on The Holy Reich challenge both its arguments and its findings. Taking issue with its methodology, pointing to what they believe are fundamental mistakes, errors, and other shortcomings, they argue the work reflects tendentiousness and a lack of originality; a refusal to explore countervailing evidence or to acknowledge prior work. The author analyses these critiques comparatively and from mu…
Nazism and the revival of political religion theory
In recent years, political religion theory has experienced something of a revival, due in part to the end of the Cold War, but also due to the culturalist turn in the human sciences, which has made possible a re‐examination of the aesthetics and public ritual of totalitarian regimes that would have been unthinkable a generation ago. However, going against the grain of this trend, this study contends that the cogency of political religion theory t…
The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945
The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919–1945
Analyzing the previously unexplored religious views of the Nazi elite, Richard Steigmann-Gall argues against the consensus that Nazism as a whole was either unrelated to Christianity or actively opposed to it. He demonstrates that many participants in the Nazi movement believed that the contours of their ideology were based on a Christian understanding of Germany's ills and their cure. A program usually regarded as secular in inspiration - the cr…
Rethinking Nazism and Religion: How Anti-Christian were the “Pagans”
In June 1937, a thirteen-year-old boy by the name of Fritz Brüggemann wrote Heinrich Himmler, the Reichsführer-SS and head of the German police, asking for some theological advice. Himmler, a leading “neopagan” in the Nazi movement, had formally left the Catholic Church in 1936, but had been lost to Christianity years before. Fritz Brüggemann had also left his church, which meant that he, like Himmler, formally went by the designation gottgläubig…
Hitler’s Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth and Neo-Nazism , by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
Apostasy or religiosity? The cultural meanings of the Protestant vote for Hitler
Star-spangled fascism: American interwar political extremism in comparative perspective
This article demonstrates that American historiography has ignored the concept of Fascism as a category of analysis to help explain and understand the American interwar period. It makes the case that incorporating this concept can help us understand American history in transnational and comparative terms, as part of a larger global history of interwar politics. It is a propaedeutic analysis of existing scholarship – one that does not survey a rec…
Rethinking Nazism and Religion: How Anti-Christian were the “Pagans”
In June 1937, a thirteen-year-old boy by the name of Fritz Brüggemann wrote Heinrich Himmler, the Reichsführer-SS and head of the German police, asking for some theological advice. Himmler, a leading “neopagan” in the Nazi movement, had formally left the Catholic Church in 1936, but had been lost to Christianity years before. Fritz Brüggemann had also left his church, which meant that he, like Himmler, formally went by the designation gottgläubig…
Apostasy or religiosity? The cultural meanings of the Protestant vote for Hitler
Christianity and the Nazi Movement: A Response
To varying degrees the contributors to this symposium on The Holy Reich challenge both its arguments and its findings. Taking issue with its methodology, pointing to what they believe are fundamental mistakes, errors, and other shortcomings, they argue the work reflects tendentiousness and a lack of originality; a refusal to explore countervailing evidence or to acknowledge prior work. The author analyses these critiques comparatively and from mu…
Apostasy or religiosity? The cultural meanings of the Protestant vote for Hitler
Hitler’s Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth and Neo-Nazism , by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919–1945
Analyzing the previously unexplored religious views of the Nazi elite, Richard Steigmann-Gall argues against the consensus that Nazism as a whole was either unrelated to Christianity or actively opposed to it. He demonstrates that many participants in the Nazi movement believed that the contours of their ideology were based on a Christian understanding of Germany's ills and their cure. A program usually regarded as secular in inspiration - the cr…
Rethinking Nazism and Religion: How Anti-Christian were the “Pagans”
In June 1937, a thirteen-year-old boy by the name of Fritz Brüggemann wrote Heinrich Himmler, the Reichsführer-SS and head of the German police, asking for some theological advice. Himmler, a leading “neopagan” in the Nazi movement, had formally left the Catholic Church in 1936, but had been lost to Christianity years before. Fritz Brüggemann had also left his church, which meant that he, like Himmler, formally went by the designation gottgläubig…
Nazism and the revival of political religion theory
In recent years, political religion theory has experienced something of a revival, due in part to the end of the Cold War, but also due to the culturalist turn in the human sciences, which has made possible a re‐examination of the aesthetics and public ritual of totalitarian regimes that would have been unthinkable a generation ago. However, going against the grain of this trend, this study contends that the cogency of political religion theory t…
The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945
The Nazis’ ‘Positive Christianity’: A Variety of ‘Clerical Fascism’
Christianity and the Nazi Movement: A Response
To varying degrees the contributors to this symposium on The Holy Reich challenge both its arguments and its findings. Taking issue with its methodology, pointing to what they believe are fundamental mistakes, errors, and other shortcomings, they argue the work reflects tendentiousness and a lack of originality; a refusal to explore countervailing evidence or to acknowledge prior work. The author analyses these critiques comparatively and from mu…
Die Katholiken und das Dritte Reich: Kontroversen und Debatten, ed. Karl-Joseph Hummel and Michael Kissener
In 1980, Klaus Gotto and Konrad Repgen produced a definitive anthology on the Catholic Church under Nazism, with revised editions in 1983 and 1990. The volume under review here is meant to affirm the place of Repgen as the ‘doyen of church historical research’ on his eighty-fifth birthday. The editors, Karl-Joseph Hummel and Michael Kissener, aspire to continue in the same vein, albeit without, they assert, the clear moralising agenda of a previo…
Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust as Historical Understanding
Alon Confino’s Foundational Pasts is a deeply ambitious and very welcome historiographical intervention into the field of Holocaust studies. Taking stock of the philosophical trends and methodological currents—and also of the empirically detailed microstudies—that have shaped the current state of Holocaust studies, Confino seeks to lay out the forest that the current generation of scholars can easily miss for the trees. This book is thus meant to…
Priest, Politician, Collaborator: Jozef Tiso and the Making of Fascist Slovakia, written by James Mace Ward
Star-spangled fascism: American interwar political extremism in comparative perspective
This article demonstrates that American historiography has ignored the concept of Fascism as a category of analysis to help explain and understand the American interwar period. It makes the case that incorporating this concept can help us understand American history in transnational and comparative terms, as part of a larger global history of interwar politics. It is a propaedeutic analysis of existing scholarship – one that does not survey a rec…
Fascism in America: Past and Present
Has fascism arrived in America? In this pioneering book, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and Janet Ward have gathered experts to survey the history of fascism in the United States. Although the US established a staunch anti-fascist reputation by defeating the Axis powers in World War II, the unsettling truth is that fascist ideas have long been present within American society. Since the election of Donald Trump as President in 2016, scholars have debated wh…
Philosophy (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Nazism (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (8 works) · Religious studies (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · European history and politics (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · German (6 works)