The Modernist God State: A Literary Study of the Nazis' Christian Reich

by Michael Lackey

Book Overview

The Modernist God State seeks to overturn the traditional secularization approach to intellectual and political history and to replace it with a fuller understanding of the religious basis of modernist political movements. Lackey demonstrates that Christianity, instead of fading after the Enlightenment, actually increased its power by becoming embedded within the concept of what was considered the legitimate nation state, thus determining...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441197591
• ISBN13: 9781441197597
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.4"