Religion and identity in Germany today
Subtitle: doubters, believers, seekers in literature and film
By: Julian Preece, Frank Finlay, and Sinéad Crowe (eds)
Series: Leeds-Swansea colloquia on contemporary German literature -- v. 2; Leeds-Swansea colloquia on contemporary German literature -- v. 2.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9783034301565
Subjects: Religion; Congresses
Description: The contributors address a range of issues, including the controversial building of a mosque in Cologne & pressure experienced by German Jews to reconnect with a religion that their forebears cast off sometimes more than a century ago.
Notes: Proceedings of a colloquium held in July 2008 in Swansea, Wales.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

English and German.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Julian Preece and Frank Finlay; title: ,Ein bißchen Aleph': Jüdische religion und religiöse praxis zwischen renaissance und musealisierung / Mona Körte; title: Belief, ritual and identity: performances of Jewishness in contemporary German cinema / Matthias Uecker; title: Das ,Ende der nachkriegszeit' im werk von Anna Mitgutsch / Andrea Reiter; title: A clear-cut case? Martin Walser and the charge of anti-semitism / Stuart Parkes; title: ,In dieser gegend gibt es keinen gott': religion in der ,postmodernen' literatur am Beispiel von Helmut Krausser, Hape Kerkeling und Felicitas Hoppe / Stefan Neuhaus; title: Gott heißt Elvis Presley: zur religiösen motivik in der zeitgenössischen deutschen prosa / Axel Schalk; title: Snatching a brand from the burning: possibilities of transcendence in Thomas Rosenlöcher's Flockenkarussell / Robert Gillett; title: 'Das gefühl des glaubens': religion in the theatre of Werner Fritsch / Sinéad Crowe; title: That old-time religion? Thoughts on Patrick Roth's 'Resurrection' trilogy / Keith Bullivant; title: Constructions of Islam: select voices from Germany and the Netherlands / Monika Shafi; title: ,Meine gläubigkeit hat einen knacks bekommen': Hubert Fichtes Der platz der gehenkten als empfindsamer beitrag einer Korankritik / Mario Fuhse; title: 'Authentic' Muslim voices? Feridun Zaimoğlu's Schwarze Jungfrauen / Frauke Matthes; title: Faking the Hadj? RIchard Burton slips between the lines in Ilija Trojanow's Der weltensammler / Julian Preece; title: Interkulturalität und religion in Deutschland: der streit um den geplanten bau einer großmoschee in Köln und die diskussion um einen europäischen Islam / Michael Hofmann.