Sterbehilfe, Glaubensverlust und Religionsersatz in Theodor Storms Bekenntnis
Theodor Storm's penultimate work, Ein Bekenntnis ( 1887), can be situated in a wide variety of contexts suggested by cultural studies, most obviously in that of German colonialism, but perhaps even more usefully in those of legal, medical and religious history. Read in these three contexts, thi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | German |
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Brill
[2011]
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Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte
Year: 2011, Volume: 63, Issue: 1, Pages: 23-44 |
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| Summary: | Theodor Storm's penultimate work, Ein Bekenntnis ( 1887), can be situated in a wide variety of contexts suggested by cultural studies, most obviously in that of German colonialism, but perhaps even more usefully in those of legal, medical and religious history. Read in these three contexts, this novella reflects the origins and consequences of the debates about voluntary euthanasia which have continued until the present day, running parallel or counter to the erosion of orthodox Christian belief. Thus Ein Bekenntnis provides unimpeachable testimony in general of the declining authority of Christianity, and moreover and in particular of the need (which has also persisted into the present) to compensate 'esoterically' for what is evidently a traumatic loss of faith. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0739 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte
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