3 Julius Evola and the “Jewish Problem” in Axis Europe: Race, Religion, and Antisemitism

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents ix
3. Figures xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 3
6. Theorizing Religion, Ethnonationalism, and Antisemitism
7. Adopting the Swastika: George E. Deatherage and the American Nationalist Confederation, 1937–1942 23
8. Transnational Antisemitic Networks and Political Christianity: The Catholic Participation in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion 48
9. Julius Evola and the “Jewish Problem” in Axis Europe: Race, Religion, and Antisemitism 72
10. Supporting Ethnonationalist Efforts
11. German Catholicism’s Lost Opportunity to Confront Antisemitism before the Machtergreifung 95
12. The Fate of John’s Gospel during the Third Reich 121
13. Nationalism and Religious Bonds: Transatlantic Religious Communities in Nazi Germany and the United States 151
14. “Often you end up asking yourself, could there be a great secret group of Jews behind it all.” – Antisemitism in the Finnish Lutheran Church after the First World War 174
15. “The Converts Were Just Delighted”: Dynamics of Religious Conversion as a Tool of Genocide in the Independent State of Croatia 209
16. Critiquing Ethnonationalism and Antisemitism
17. Learning as a Space of Protection: The Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Nazi Berlin 245
18. Ethnonationalism as a Theological Crisis: Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky and the Greek Catholic Church in Western Ukraine, 1923–1944 274
19. To Murder or Save Thy Neighbour? Romanian Orthodox Clergymen and Jews during the Holocaust (1941–1945) 305
20. Racist, Brutal, and Ethnotheist: A Conservative Christian View of Nazism in the Korntal Brethren 331
21. Ecumenical Protestant Responses to the Rise of Nazism, Fascism, and Antisemitism During the 1920s and 1930s 356
22. Afterword 379
23. Contributors 387
24. Index 393