Ausgleich statt Austerität
Die Wahl Donald Trumps hat auch für Europa dramatische Konsequenzen: Seine Infragestellung der transatlantischen Partnerschaft macht die Zukunft der Europäischen Union zu einer existen…
Archiv für Dezember 2016
Auf Sand gebaut: Afrikas vergebene Boom-Jahre
Afrika steht derzeit im Fokus der bundesdeutschen Migrationspolitik. Der Kontinent stelle, unterstrich Kanzlerin Angela Merkel während ihres Afrikabesuchs im vergangenen Oktober, die gr&oum…
Die neuen Medienmacher
Vor ein paar Jahren noch war Dominik Wichmann Chefredakteur des Wochenmagazins „Stern“. Nun wird Wichmann Chefredakteur beim Mercedes-Stern. Der gelernte Journalist soll nämlich…
Unser Mann in Athen
Wenn am 1. Januar 2017 der große griechische Schriftsteller Petros Markaris seinen 80.Weiterlesen
Chronik des Monats November 2016
1.11. – Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Der Landtag in Schwerin bestätigt Ministerpräsident Erwin Sellering (SPD) mit 41 von 71 Stimmen im Amt. Sellering führt eine Koalition von SPD und CDU, die im Parlament über 42 Stimmen verfügt (zum Ergebnis der Landtagswahl vom 4. September 2016 vgl. „Blätter“, 11/2016, S. 125).
The Town Chronicle of Johannes Hass: History Writing and Divine Intervention in the Early Sixteenth Century *
<span class=“paragraphSection“><div class=“boxTitle“>Abstract</div>The council annals of Johannes Hass, the last Catholic mayor of the West Bohemian town of Görlitz, are a fascinating document. In a single source we can see the author’s changing interpretation of divine intervention between <span style=“font-style:italic;“>c.</span>1509 and 1542. After the introduction of the Reformation, Hass steadily decreased the importance of God, whilst the Devil became increasingly important. Regardless of Hass’s staunch Catholicism, Martin Luther’s impact can be felt in his vision of the divine and the demonic as he subconsciously incorporated minor elements of Lutheranism and commented positively on small changes brought about by the Reformation. Hass shows how receptive Catholics were towards Lutheran theology, without necessarily acknowledging it, as long as the new religion did not challenge the urban order. In rich and colourful language, Hass changed the very nature of God, the Devil and the saints. In this way he was responding to the slow but steady introduction of the Reformation in Görlitz. Only by gradually turning God into a passive observer and giving greater agency to human actors could Hass make sense of the absence of a clear sign in favour of the Catholics in Görlitz.</span>
Selling Scientific Authority: Radium Spas, Advertising and Popular Understandings of Radioactivity in Germany, 1900–1937 *
<span class=“paragraphSection“><div class=“boxTitle“>Abstract</div>Radioactive therapies from spa water to chocolate won wide popularity in early twentieth-century Europe, connecting interest in modern science, concern about health and desire for a life that was both ‘natural’ and rational. Europeans learned to consider radioactivity a modern health aid from a variety of public experts, from scientists and physicians to government officials, advertisers and spas. German radium spas engaged in public debates about the therapeutic versus dangerous properties of radioactivity, helping to sell the German and European publics on the idea that radioactivity promised health and vitality. They connected scientific discovery, new ideas about healing and an emerging social-welfare state to modern consumer culture, offering a vivid illustration of how public understandings of science and health were constructed in a rapidly modernizing European society. Radium spas were nimble modern actors—adjusting to changing scientific information, state regulation, commercial markets, mass media and popular opinion. When radioactivity was hailed as a cure-all in the 1910s and 1920s, they celebrated ‘radium water’ as the modern answer to public and individual health. But in the 1930s, when evidence emerged that radioactivity might be dangerous, and competition for consumers was fierce, they emphasized their medical expertise in providing safe ‘radium cures’. As a case study, German radium spas provide insight into the evolution of popular perceptions about what radioactivity was and why it mattered, as well as into how diverse actors shape modern popular understandings of health more broadly.</span>
Gemeinschaft als Erfahrung: Kulturelle Inszenierungen und soziale Praxis 1930–1960 Visions of Community in Nazi Germany: Social Engineering and Private Lives
<span class=“paragraphSection“><span style=“font-style:italic;“>Gemeinschaft als Erfahrung: Kulturelle Inszenierungen und soziale Praxis 1930–1960</span>. Edited by ReinickeDavid, SternKathrin, ThielerKerstin and ZamzowGunnar. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh. 2014. 228 pp. €29.90 (hardback).</span>
German Cosmopolitan Social Thought and the Idea of the West. Voices from Weimar
Journal Name: Journal for the History of Modern Theology / Zeitschrift für Neuere Theologiegeschichte
Volume: 23
Issue: 2
Pages: 300-304