Dark Side of Church/state Separation - The French Revolution, Nazi Germany, and International Communism

The Dark Side of Church/State Separation analyzes the Enlightenment's attack upon the Judeo-Christian tradition and its impact upon the development of secular regimes in France, Germany, and Russia

List of contents

Introduction I France and the Modern etat 1 Voltaire and English Deists 2 The Philosophes 3 The French Revolution 4 The Process of Secularization 5 Laicite II Nazi Germany 6 The Rise of the Third Reich 7 The Immediate Sources of Hitler's Ideology 8 The Metaphysics of Voluntarism 9 Biblical Criticism and Liberal Theology 10 The Growth of Anti-Semitism and Anti-Christianity: Inside and Outside the Church 11 German Etatism, Racism, and Ethnocentrism III International Communism 12 The First International: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 13 The Second International: Karl Kautsky 14 The Third International: Lenin, Stalin, and Khrushchev Postscript Index

About the author

Stephen Strehle

Summary

The Dark Side of Church/State Separation analyzes the Enlightenment's attack upon the Judeo-Christian tradition and its impact upon the development of secular regimes in France, Germany, and Russia

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Strehle, Strehle Stephen
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.09.2017
• EAN: 9781138515673
• ISBN: 978-1-138-51567-3
• No. of pages: 404
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, Christianity, Politics & government, Religion & politics, Judaism, Politics and government, Religion and Politics, Political structure and processes