EAN: 9783034301565

RELIGION AND IDENTITY IN GERMANY TODAY KARTONIE...

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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