Post-Holocaust Religious Education for German Women
Author | : Gabriele Mayer |
Publisher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2003 |
ISBN-10 | : 3825861457 |
ISBN-13 | : 9783825861452 |
Rating | : 4/5 (452 Downloads) |
Download or read book Post-Holocaust Religious Education for German Women written by Gabriele Mayer and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After beginning with the problem of the inability of German postwar generations to relate to the Holocaust, focuses on ways German Christian women can learn to acknowledge German women's share of responsibility for Nazi crimes against the Jews, i.e. women's role as part of the perpetrator nation. Explores ways German women have been encouraged to try to integrate knowledge of this past into their identity formation and internalize post-Holocaust theology into their own views and lives. Notes ways that Holocaust studies and women's studies can combine to move German Christian women from complacency and individualism to involvement in "tikkun olam" that includes existential encounters with members of the victim nation.