Challenging Colonial Discourse: Jewish Studies And Protestant Theology In Wilhelmine Germany (Studies in European Judaism, V. 10)

Christian Wiese

ISBN 10: 9004119620 / ISBN 13: 9789004119628

Published by Brill Academic Publishers, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Challenging Colonial Discourse: Jewish Studies And Protestant Theology In Wilhelmine Germany (Studies in European Judaism, V. 10)
• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004119620
• ISBN 13: 9789004119628
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

On the basis of postcolonial theory, this study shows how Jewish scholars, in the controversies about the “essence” of Judaism and Christianity at the beginning of the 20th century, challenged the intellectual hegemony of Liberal Protestantism in Germany. By carefully examining the impact of the political circumstances―the loss of relevance of political liberalism, the spreading of antisemitism, and the crisis of Jewish identity in an age of contested emancipation and assimilation―on the theological discourse, it provides a critical analysis of anti-Jewish implications of Protestant theology in the 19th and 20th centuries and discusses the function of Jewish polemics against Protestant distortions of Jewish history, religion and culture. Furthermore, it develops important guidelines for a contemporary interdisciplinary relationship between Jewish Studies and Christian theology.

About the Author

Christian Wiese, Ph.D. (1997) in Protestant Theology, is Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at Erfurt University and taught at McGill University in Montreal and Dartmouth College. He has published extensively on Modern Jewish History and Thought, including Hans Jonas. ‚Zusammen Philosoph und Jude‛, (Frankfurt a. M. 2003).