The Science of Religions in a Fascist State

Rudolf Otto and Jakob Wilhelm Hauer During the Third Reich

Bibliographic Data

ID4372174
AuthorsGregory D Alles (0000-0001-8788-8767, McDaniel College, corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume32
Issue3
Pages177-204
Publication date2002-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligion (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0048-721X • E-ISSN: 1096-1151
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1006/reli.2002.0401
OpenAlexW2051395742
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited19

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

Art history · Capitalism · Epistemology · Flemish · German · German idealism · Hegelianism · Historicism · Idealism · Materialism · National state · Nationalism · Nazism · Political science · Politics · Rationalism · Romanticism · Scientific socialism · State (computer science) · State socialism · Vitalism · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious studies · Study and Philosophy of Religion