The Holy Reich: reviews and interviews (last updated April 2007)
Interviews:
“The Christian Nazis?” by Christopher Shea. “Critical Faculties” column in the “Ideas” section of The Boston
Globe, 17 August 2003, p. D4.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2003/08/17/the_christian_nazis
Interview by Stephen Crittenden, “The Religion Report” weekly radio program, Australian Broadcasting
Corporation: September 17, 2003.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/relrpt/stories/s946813.htm
Interview by Phillip Adams, “Late Night Live” daily radio program, Australian Broadcasting Corporation: January
31, 2005.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/lnl/s1292519.htm
Review essays in academic media:
George Williamson, “A Religious Sonderweg? Reflections on the Sacred and the Secular in the Historiography of
Modern Germany," in Church History 75 (2006): 139-56. (rethinks the Sonderweg debate through the frame of
religion).
Neil Gregor, “Politics, Culture, Political Culture: Recent Work on the Third Reich and Its Aftermath,” Journal of
Modern History 78 (2006): 643-83. (essay on recent literature which begins with a four-page analysis of Holy
Reich).
Mark Edward Ruff, “The Nazis’ Religionspolitik: An Assessment of Recent Literature,” The Catholic Historical
Review 92 (2006): 252-66 (comparison of Holy Reich with Wolfgang Dierker’s Himmlers Glaubenskrieger).
Milan Babík, “Nazism as a Secular Religion,” History and Theory 45 (2006): 375-96 (explores the conceptual
apparatus underpinning Holy Reich).
“Discussion Forum – Richard Steigmann-Gall’s The Holy Reich,” with critiques by Doris Bergen, Manfred Gailus,
Irving Hexham, Ernst Piper and Stanley Stowers, moderated by Richard Evans and with rejoinder by the author:
Journal of Contemporary History 42/1 and 42/2 (2007).
Reviews in academic media:
John S. Conway, “Review of Richard Steigmann-Gall, The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 19191945,” H-German, June 2003.
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=55161057430311
Uwe Schmidt, “Rezension von Richard Steigmann-Gall, The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 19191945,” H-Soz-u-Kult, October 2003.
http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2003-4-048
Daniel Johnson, “An Ice-Cold Embrace.” Review in The Times Literary Supplement, 28 November 2003, p. 10.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/incomingFeeds/article752952.ece
Anita Bunyan, “Hitler’s Hymn to Jesus.” Review in The Times Higher Education Supplement, 28 November 2003.
Richard Weikart, “Review of Richard Steigmann-Gall, The Holy Reich, Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 19191945,” German Studies Review 27/1 (2003): 174-75.
Herbert Andrews, “Richard Steigmann-Gall, The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945,” Choice
(January 2004): 983-984.
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Donald Dietrich, “Review of Richard Steigmann-Gall, The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 19191945,” European History Quarterly 34/2 (2004): 258-61.
Lothar Kettenacker, “Review of Richard Steigmann-Gall, The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 19191945,” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute London 26/1 (2004), 116-120.
Mary-Jane Haemig, “Review of Richard Steigmann-Gall, The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 19191945,” Church History 73/2 (2004): 438-39.
Jonathan Sperber, “Review of Richard Steigmann-Gall, The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 19191945,” Neue Politische Literatur 49/3 (2004): 516-517.
Kristin Semmens, “Richard Steigmann-Gall, The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945,”
Canadian Journal of History 39/2 (2004): 370-71.
David Taylor, “The Social Bases of Nazism, 1919-1933 By Detlef Muhlberger; The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of
Christianity, 1919-1945 By Richard Steigmann-Gall; Alternatives to Hitler: German Resistance under the Third
Reich By Hans Mommsen,” German Politics 13 (2004): 395-96.
Ries Roowan, “Boekbesprekingen – The Holy Reich: Nazi conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945,” Tijdschrift voor
geschiedenis 117 (2004): 636.
Robert Bates, “Richard Steigmann-Gall, The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945,” German
History 22/3 (2004): 489-91.
Heinz Hürten, “Richard Steigmann-Gall, The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945,”
Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte 91/3 (2004): 343.
Mikko Ketola, “Uusi tulkinta natsismin velasta kristinuskolle,” Yearbook of the Finnish Society of Church History
(2004).
Martyn Housden, “Richard Steigmann-Gall, The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945,”
Reviews in History (University of London, Institute of Historical Research) (2004).
http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/paper/housdenM.html
Donald Fries, “Richard Steigmann-Gall, The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945,” History:
Review of New Books 32/2 (2004): 67.
Brian Porter, “Richard Steigmann-Gall, The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945,” Holocaust
and Genocide Studies 19/1 (2005): 125-27.
Michael von Prollius, “Richard Steigmann-Gall, The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945,”
Archiv für Sozialgeschichte 45 (2005): 652-656.
Kees Gispen, “Richard Steigmann-Gall, The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945,” Central
European History 38/3 (2005): 509-512.
Beth Griech-Polelle, “Richard Steigmann-Gall, The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945,”
American Historical Review 110/5 (2005): 1620.
Suzanne Brown-Fleming, “Gottglaubigers – Richard Steigmann-Gall, The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of
Christianity, 1919-1945,” Review of Politics 67 (2005): 570-571.
Björn Biester, “Richard Steigmann-Gall, The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945,”
Theologische Literaturzeitung 130 (2005): 980-981.
Doris Bergen, “Richard Steigmann-Gall, The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945,” Catholic
Historical Review 91/4 (2005): 841-43.
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Jean-Thomas Nicole, “Richard Steigmann-Gall, The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945,”
Studies in religion/Sciences religieuses 34/3 (2005): 597.
Andrew Chandler, “Richard Steigmann-Gall, The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945,”
English Historical Review 120 (2005): 487-489.
Riccardo Bajav, “Richard Steigmann-Gall, The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945,”
Historische Zeitschrift 281 (2005): 810-811.
Wilhelm Damberg, “Richard Steigmann-Gall, The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945,”
Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte 116/2 (2005): 292-94.
Allan Fletcher, “Richard Steigmann-Gall, The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945,” Open
History, ?, 37.
Martin Durham, “Richard Steigmann-Gall, The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945,” Socialist
History 26 (2005), 102-104.
Tom Lawson, “Richard Steigmann-Gall, The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945,” Ethnic and
Racial Studies 29/2 (2006): 366-367.
Reviews in popular media:
Review by Richard Ostling, AP religion writer, syndicated as:
“Many leaders of Hitler’s Germany saw themselves as Christians – of a Sort,” The Augusta Chronicle, 6 June 2003;
“Religious Exploitation: Many Leaders of Hitler’s Germany used Christian Resources to Develop Extremist Faith,”
The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, 7 June 2003;
“Christian Nazis Wanted a New Version of the Bible,” Mansfield News Journal, 14 June 2003;
also in:
South Bend Tribune, 5 June 2003;
The Skagit Valley Herald, 7 June 2003;
Racine Journal Times, 8 June 2003;
The Bremerton Sun, 7 June 2003;
The Star Phoenix (Saskatoon), 7 June 2003;
Times Colonist (Victoria), 7 June 2003;
Bradenton Herald, 14 June 2003;
St. John's Telegram (Newfoundland), 29 June 2003.
“Selbst Teil der Dunkelheit,” by Richard J. Evans. Review in the “Feuilleton” section of the Süddeutsche Zeitung,
15 July 2003, p. 14.
“Var nazismen protestantisk?” by Lennart Lundmark. Review in the “Kultur” section of the Dagens Nyheter, 1
August 2003.
“Nazi Pulpits?” by Jack Fischel. Review in the “Books and Arts” section of The Weekly Standard, 28 July 2003, p.
29-30. Author’s response in The Weekly Standard, 18 August 2003, p. 7.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/917oiylq.asp
Ronald Rychlak, “The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945.” Review in the “Briefly Noted”
section of First Things 136 (October 2003): 75-79.
http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0310/reviews/brieflynoted.html
“The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945” by John Carmody. Review in The Sydney Morning
Herald, 26 December 2003.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/26/1072308668437.html
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“Were the Nazis Christians?” by Dimitri Cavalli. Review in Crisis: Politics, Culture and the Church 21: 3
(February 2004).
http://www.crisismagazine.com/february2004/book5.htm
Amitabh Pal, “The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945.” Review in “Good Books Lately”
section of The Progressive 68: 4 (April 2004).
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1295/is_4_68/ai_115079758
“The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945” by Canon Wilkinson. Review in Church Times
(July 16, 2004).
http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/80256E4E00384246/httpPublicPages/A6B04333B0AEA9C780256EA7004071C3?o
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“The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945” by Tom Aitken. Review in The Christian Century
(August 10, 2004).
http://www.christiancentury.org/dept_books_07.htm
Mentions in popular media:
Michael Burleigh, “Another chance to kick the Catholics,” The Sunday Times, 27 July 2003.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article850131.ece
“Year in review” list by Richard Ostling, AP religion reporter, syndicated as:
“Religious books give substance to gift-giving,” The Halifax Herald, 6 December 2003;
“For gift-giving with substance, consider 2003’s notable religious books,” Kansas City Star, 6 December 2003;
“Spiritual substance: A look at the year’s notable religious books,” The Concord Monitor, 13 December 2003;
“New religion books offer substance,” The Indianapolis Star, 20 December 2003.
also in:
South Bend Tribune, 4 December 2003;
The Brainerd Dispatch, 5 December 2003;
The Oak Ridger, 5 December 2003;
Augusta Chronicle, 5 December 2003;
Holland Sentinel, 6 December 2003;
The Victoria Advocate, 6 December 2003;
Shawnee News-Star, 6 December 2003;
Bradenton Herald, 6 December 2003;
Montgomery Advertiser, 7 December 2003;
Evansville Courier & Press, 7 December 2003;
The Daily Herald, 12 December 2003;
Suburban Chicago Newspapers, 12 December 2003;
The Henderson Gleaner, 13 December 2003;
Norman Ravitch, “Confessions and Retractions on the Problem of Christian Antisemitism,” in “The Current
Thinking” section of Tikkun Magazine: A Bimonthly Jewish and Interfaith Critique of Politics, Culture, & Society,
April 12, 2004.
http://www.tikkun.org/index.cfm/action/current/article/230.html
Gerald Walton Paul, “Exploring the ‘Shadow Side’ of Faith,” The Kingston Whig-Standard, 24 April 2004.
http://www.emergence.qc.ca/mariage_articles/20040424_1.htm
“Paperbacks,” The Times (Weekend Review), 2 October 2004.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article488662.ece?token=null&offset=12