Holocaust Education and the Church-Related College
Holocaust Education and the Church-Related College

Author: Stephen R. Haynes

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1997-05-28

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13:

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In 1994 Haynes conducted a nationwide survey designed to yield a picture of Holocaust education at U.S. church-related liberal arts colleges. A questionnaire was mailed to 521 institutions. Of the 317 which responded, only 91 offered a regular course on the Holocaust. The results of the survey were disappointing. States that the Holocaust was a rupture in two traditions: the Christian one and that of liberal education. Both Christian education and liberal education bear responsibility for the Holocaust, because both produced ordinary educated persons who were nevertheless capable of committing genocide. The church-related colleges of liberal arts have a religious obligation to teach the Holocaust as part of higher education's penance for this. The Christian scholar must realize the responsibility of Christianity for the Holocaust. Proposes practical strategies and measures for including the Holocaust in college curricula. Pp. 157-170 contain the questionnaire, graphs displaying the results of the survey, and a list of the colleges involved.

The Emergence of Holocaust Education in American Schools
The Emergence of Holocaust Education in American Schools

Author: T. Fallace

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2008-03-31

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 023061115X

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Interest by American educators in the Holocaust has increased exponentially during the second half of the twentieth century. In 1960 the Holocaust was barely being addressed in American public schools. Yet by the 1990s several states had mandated the teaching of the event. Drawing upon a variety of sources including unpublished works and interviews, this study traces the rise of genocide education in America. The author demonstrates how the genesis of this movement can be attributed to a grassroots effort initiated by several teachers, who introduced the topic as a way to help their students navigate the moral and ethical ambiguity of the times.

"Good News" After Auschwitz?

Author: Carol Rittner

Publisher: Mercer University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780865547018

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Many argue that Christians must address their own culpability in the destruction of Europe's Jewry. If post-Holocaust Christians only lament Christianity's sin the tradition will be ultimately left with little to say and no credibility. Post-Holocaust Christians must emphasize positive differences that Christianity can make, including: -- Repentant honesty about Christianity's anti-Jewish history -- New appreciation for the Jewish origins of Christianity, the Jewish identity of Jesus, and the continuing vitality of the Jewish people and their traditions -- Welcome liberation from liturgies and biblical interpretations that promote harmful Christian exclusivism

Christianity, The Other, and The Holocaust
Christianity, The Other, and The Holocaust

Author: Michael R. Steele

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2003-02-28

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 0313039305

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According to the author, Christianity offers a powerful system of rewards and incentives to create cultural uniformity. Those who do not join in this cultural uniformity become anathematized, oppressed, marginalized, and ultimately removed from the Christian circle of moral obligation. Using culture studies as a framework for analysis, Steele investigates the ways in which Christianity created cultural conditions based on a theology of violence and the use of sacred violence to foster behaviors that would lead to the involvement of millions of perpetrators and bystanders during the many instances of extreme violence used against the Other over the centuries. As the original Disconfirming Other in the Christian cultural world, Jews often served as the primary target. Thus, there was a system of definitions, rewards, incentives, and victims already in place when the Nazis came to power. Calling for a re-evaluation of the cultural practices and values that have developed within Christianity over time, this important new book helps account for the phenomenon of the Nazi perpetrators and bystanders during the Holocaust. Framing the Holocaust as a late but logical development in a long series of violent responses by Christianity to the Other—those who stand outside the Christian world, either by geographical accident, religious tradition, or some other factor—the author attempts to show how the Holocaust, while not a specifically Christian event, was nevertheless sanctioned and conditioned by other events in the history of Christianity. Using culture studies to frame his analysis, Steele focuses on historical antecedents that help account for the apathy of bystanders and point to the preexistence of a moral framework supporting and empowering the perpetrators of the Holocaust. This unique perspective concludes that the Nazis invented almost nothing with regard to the Shoah, and that, instead, a long-standing insistence on cultural hegemony played a much bigger role in the attempted destruction of the Jewish community.

An Introduction to Holocaust Studies
An Introduction to Holocaust Studies

Author: Michael Bernard-Donals

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-09-13

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1315507919

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This single volume traces three approaches to the study of the Holocaust - through notions of history, theories of memory, and a focus on art and representation. It introduces students to the different ways we have come to understand the Holocaust, gives them an opportunity to ask questions about those conclusions, and examines how this event can be understood once all the survivors are gone. In addition, the book looks at the different disciplines - history, sociology, religious studies, and literary interpretation, among others - through which studies of the Holocaust take place.

Confessing Christ in a Post-Holocaust World
Confessing Christ in a Post-Holocaust World

Author: Henry F. Knight

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2000-03-30

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 0313002266

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The questions posed by the Holocaust force faithful Christians to reexamine their own identities and loyalties in fundamental ways and to recognize the necessity of excising the Church's historic anti-Jewish rhetoric from its confessional core. This volume proposes a new framework of meaning for Christians who want to remain both faithful and critical about a world capable of supporting such evil. The author has rooted his critical perspective in the midrashic framework of Jewish hermeneutics, which requires Christians to come to terms with the significant other in their confessional lives. By bringing biblical texts and the history of the Holocaust face to face, this volume aims at helping Jews and Christians understand their own traditions and one another's.

New Perspectives on the Holocaust
New Perspectives on the Holocaust

Author: Rochelle L. Millen

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 1996-09

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 0814755402

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Authors involved in teaching about the Holocaust offer guidance and confront issues related to teaching about the Holocaust.

Catholic Teaching on the Shoah
Catholic Teaching on the Shoah

Author: National Conference of Catholic Bishops

Publisher: USCCB Publishing

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9781574554069

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The bishops offer ways to frame Holocaust issues properly and sensitively for Catholic students using historical and theological contexts. Additional resources are provided to aid in developing curricula.

The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies
The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies

Author: Peter Hayes

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2012-11-22

Total Pages: 791

ISBN-13: 019165079X

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Few scholarly fields have developed in recent decades as rapidly and vigorously as Holocaust Studies. At the start of the twenty-first century, the persecution and murder perpetrated by the Nazi regime have become the subjects of an enormous literature in multiple academic disciplines and a touchstone of public and intellectual discourse in such diverse fields as politics, ethics and religion. Forward-looking and multi-disciplinary, this handbook draws on the work of an international team of forty-seven outstanding scholars. The handbook is thematically divided into five broad sections. Part One, Enablers, concentrates on the broad and necessary contextual conditions for the Holocaust. Part Two, Protagonists, concentrates on the principal persons and groups involved in the Holocaust and attempts to disaggregate the conventional interpretive categories of perpetrator, victim, and bystander. It examines the agency of the Nazi leaders and killers and of those involved in resisting and surviving the assault. Part Three, Settings, concentrates on the particular places, sites, and physical circumstances where the actions of the Holocaust's protagonists and the forms of persecution were literally grounded. Part Four, Representations, engages complex questions about how the Holocaust can and should be grasped and what meaning or lack of meaning might be attributed to events through historical analysis, interpretation of texts, artistic creation and criticism, and philosophical and religious reflection. Part Five, Aftereffects, explores the Holocaust's impact on politics and ethics, education and religion, national identities and international relations, the prospects for genocide prevention, and the defense of human rights.

Unity in Christ and Country
Unity in Christ and Country

Author: William Harrison Taylor

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 2017-06-06

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 081731945X

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Examines the interdenominational pursuits of the American Presbyterian Church from 1758 to 1801 In Unity in Christ and Country: American Presbyterians in the Revolutionary Era, 1758–1801, William Harrison Taylor investigates the American Presbyterian Church’s pursuit of Christian unity and demonstrates how, through this effort, the church helped to shape the issues that gripped the American imagination, including evangelism, the conflict with Great Britain, slavery, nationalism, and sectionalism. When the colonial Presbyterian Church reunited in 1758, a nearly twenty-year schism was brought to an end. To aid in reconciling the factions, church leaders called for Presbyterians to work more closely with other Christian denominations. Their ultimate goal was to heal divisions, not just within their own faith but also within colonial North America as a whole. Taylor contends that a self-imposed interdenominational transformation began in the American Presbyterian Church upon its reunion in 1758. However, this process was altered by the church’s experience during the American Revolution, which resulted in goals of Christian unity that had both spiritual and national objectives. Nonetheless, by the end of the century, even as the leaders in the Presbyterian Church strove for unity in Christ and country, fissures began to develop in the church that would one day divide it and further the sectional rift that would lead to the Civil War. Taylor engages a variety of sources, including the published and unpublished works of both the Synods of New York and Philadelphia and the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, as well as numerous published and unpublished Presbyterian sermons, lectures, hymnals, poetry, and letters. Scholars of religious history, particularly those interested in the Reformed tradition, and specifically Presbyterianism, should find Unity in Christ and Country useful as a way to consider the importance of the theology’s intellectual and pragmatic implications for members of the faith.