Disruptive Power: Catholic Women, Miracles, and Politics in Modern Germany, 1918-1965
Disruptive Power examines a surprising revival of faith in Catholic miracles in Germany from the 1920s to the 1960s. The book follows the dramatic stigmata of Therese Neumann of Konnersreuth and her powerful circle of followers that included theologians, Cardinals, politicians, journalists, monarchists, anti-fascists, and everyday pilgrims. Disruptive Power explores how this and other similar groups negotiated the precariousness of the Weimar Republic, the repression of the Third Reich, and the dynamic early years of the Federal Republic.
Analyzing a network of rebellious traditionalists, O’Sullivan illustrates the divisions that characterized the German Catholic minority as they endured the tumultuous era of the world wars. Analyzing material from archives in Germany and the United States, Michael E. O’Sullivan investigates the unsanctioned but very popular visions in several rural towns after World War II, providing micro-histories that illuminate the impact of mystical faith on religiosity, politics, and gender norms.
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Disruptive Power: Catholic Women, Miracles, and Politics in Modern Germany, 1918-1965
Disruptive Power examines a surprising revival of faith in Catholic miracles in Germany from the 1920s to the 1960s. The book follows the dramatic stigmata of Therese Neumann of Konnersreuth and her powerful circle of followers that included theologians, Cardinals, politicians, journalists, monarchists, anti-fascists, and everyday pilgrims. Disruptive Power explores how this and other similar groups negotiated the precariousness of the Weimar Republic, the repression of the Third Reich, and the dynamic early years of the Federal Republic.
Analyzing a network of rebellious traditionalists, O’Sullivan illustrates the divisions that characterized the German Catholic minority as they endured the tumultuous era of the world wars. Analyzing material from archives in Germany and the United States, Michael E. O’Sullivan investigates the unsanctioned but very popular visions in several rural towns after World War II, providing micro-histories that illuminate the impact of mystical faith on religiosity, politics, and gender norms.
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Disruptive Power: Catholic Women, Miracles, and Politics in Modern Germany, 1918-1965
Disruptive Power examines a surprising revival of faith in Catholic miracles in Germany from the 1920s to the 1960s. The book follows the dramatic stigmata of Therese Neumann of Konnersreuth and her powerful circle of followers that included theologians, Cardinals, politicians, journalists, monarchists, anti-fascists, and everyday pilgrims. Disruptive Power explores how this and other similar groups negotiated the precariousness of the Weimar Republic, the repression of the Third Reich, and the dynamic early years of the Federal Republic.
Analyzing a network of rebellious traditionalists, O’Sullivan illustrates the divisions that characterized the German Catholic minority as they endured the tumultuous era of the world wars. Analyzing material from archives in Germany and the United States, Michael E. O’Sullivan investigates the unsanctioned but very popular visions in several rural towns after World War II, providing micro-histories that illuminate the impact of mystical faith on religiosity, politics, and gender norms.
Michael E. O’Sullivan is an associate professor in the Department of History at Marist College.
Table of Contents
List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction
1. Germany between Apocalypse and Salvation: Bloody Images and Miraculous Cures 2. The Rise of Therese Neumann of Konnersreuth during the Weimar Republic 3. Saving Souls and Making Enemies: The Struggle over Konnersreuth and the Downfall of Political Catholicism 4. Between Feminine Agency and Moral Utopia: Gender and Sex in Konnersreuth 5. Disruptive Potential: Catholic Miracles under the Third Reich 6. Miraculous Times in West Germany: Marian Apparitions during the Early Federal Republic 7. Therese Neumann between Catholic Traditionalism, Cold War, and Economic Miracle
Conclusion
Bibliography Index
What People are Saying About This
Noel D. Cary
"Superb, rich, and lucidly written, Disruptive Power taps into the burgeoning area of cultural studies as a whole, and Catholic mysticism in modern Germany in particular. Building on a recently vibrant historiography on mystical apparitions in the Kaiserreich, Michael E. O'Sullivan embraces gender studies as well as new approaches to religion, secularization, and modernity."
Mark Edward Ruff
"Extremely compelling and well written, Disruptive Power tells a terrific story centred on Therese Neumann, one interwoven with tales of Marian apparitions from other regions of Germany. In a remarkable mastery of detail and nuance, Michael E. O'Sullivan reconstructs the complicated web of reactions, power politics, and ecclesiastical scrambling that ensued in the wake of ongoing revelations, visions, pilgrimages, and cures. Disruptive Power is a masterful example of history written both from above and below − of church, gender, and social history. Written with a commanding grasp of the scholarly literature, it spans the Weimar Republic, the Nazi era, and the first two decades of the Federal Republic."
