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Religion and Identity in Germany Today - Doubters, Believers, Seekers in Literature and Film (English, German, Paperback, New edition)
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Religion and Identity in Germany Today - Doubters, Believers, Seekers in Literature and Film (English, German, Paperback, New edition)
Series: Leeds-Swansea Colloquia on Contemporary German Literature, 2
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In German-speaking Europe, as in other parts of the western world,
questions of religious identity have been discussed with sudden
urgency since the attacks of '9/11'. Nowhere was this clearer than
in the heated controversy over the building of a mosque in the city
of Cologne, which is the subject of Michael Hofmann's contribution
to this volume. Turkish Germans have also found themselves defined
by the religious background of their parents. For different reasons
German Jews have faced pressure to reconnect with a religion that
their forbears cast off sometimes more than a century ago. At the
same time religious belief among the nominally Christian majority
has been in retreat. These changes have generated poetry, drama,
and fiction as well as a number of films by both well-known and
emerging authors and filmmakers. Their works sometimes reflect but
more often challenge debates taking place in politics and the
media. The essays in this volume explore a range of genres which
engage with religion in contemporary Germany and Austria. They show
that literature and film express nuances of feeling and attitude
that are eclipsed in other, more immediately influential
discourses. Discussion of these works is thus essential for an
understanding of the role of religion in forming identity in
contemporary multicultural German-speaking societies. This volume
contains eight chapters in English and six in German.
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