Michael Hochgeschwender

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Michael Hochgeschwender (born November 6, 1961 in Würzburg ) is professor of North American cultural history , empirical cultural research and cultural anthropology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Life

In 1988 Hochgeschwender completed his diploma in Catholic theology at the University of Würzburg , and in 1991 his Magister Artium in modern and recent history, medieval history and the history of religion. The doctorate took place in 1996 at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , the habilitation in 2003 there. He has been a professor in Munich since 2004.

Hochgeschwender researches, among other things, the history of religion in the USA, in particular American Catholicism, the history of the USA in the antebellum and civil war epochs , and the intellectual history of the Cold War and conservatism in the USA.

In Hochgeschwender's 2007 book American Religion: Evangelicalism, Pentecostalism, Fundamentalism , he sees a peculiarity of American society, among other things, with an astonishing degree of religiosity compared to Western Europe and other highly industrialized areas. Evangelical, fundamentalist and Pentecostal religion forms have a special position. The revival movements took markedly left-wing, anti-economic Darwinist positions on social issues, which is often overlooked in the European assessment of the dispute between creationists and Darwinists . It wasn't until the late 1970s that they were mostly assigned to the conservative camp in the United States.

Hochgeschwender is single. Since his student days he has been an active member of the Catholic student associations KStV Rheno-Frankonia Würzburg, Tannenberg-Königsberg zu Berlin, Barbarossa zu Kaiserslautern and KStV Alamannia Tübingen in the KV as well as the Görres Society and TSV 1860 Munich .

Publications (excerpt)

  • Freedom on the offensive? The Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Germans. Oldenbourg, Munich 1998 (= Ordnungssysteme , Vol. 1), ISBN 3-486-56341-6 (also: Dissertation, Tübingen 1996).
  • Truth, unity, order. The Slave Question and American Catholicism, 1835–1870. Paderborn 2006.
  • Honor and gender. Strategies in Building National Unity after the American Civil War. In: Horst Carl , Hans-Henning Kortüm , Dieter Langewiesche , Friedrich Lenger : War defeats. Experiences and memories. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2004, pp. 313–328.
  • Religion, national mythology and national identity. On the methodological and content-related debates in American 'New Religious History'. In: Historisches Jahrbuch 124, 2004, pp. 435-520.
  • Catholicism and Anti-Semitism. In: Karl-Joseph Hummel : Contemporary Catholicism Research. Facts, interpretations, questions an interim balance. Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2004, pp. 31-48. (= Publications of the Commission for Contemporary History , Series B: Research, Vol. 100).
  • What is the west On the history of ideas of a political construct. In: Historisch-Politische Mitteilungen 11, 2004, pp. 1–30.
  • Kurt Georg Kiesinger and the fraternity of the 20s and 30s. In: Günter Buch et al .: Kurt Georg Kiesinger, 1904–1988. From Ebingen to the Chancellery. Herder, Freiburg / Br. 2005, pp. 119-146.
  • American religion. Evangelicalism, Pentecostalism, Fundamentalism. Verlag der Welteligionen im Inselverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-458-71005-9 .
  • Like two cocks fighting. The struggle for the American constitution. In: Back then. 40, 2008, issue 6, pp. 28-34.
  • On the way to an indivisible nation. Concepts of Loyalty and Loyalty Discourses in 19th Century US History. In: Nikolaus Buschmann, Karl Borromäus Murr: Treue. Political Loyalty and Military Allegiance in the Modern Age. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2008, pp. 377-420.
  • Toward the Kingdom of God? The religious development of the USA after the epochal upheaval of 1989/90. In: Klaus Koschorke (ed.): Collapsing walls. The year 1989/90 as an epoch year in the history of world Christianity. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2009, pp. 351–371.
  • The American Civil War. CH Beck, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-406-56251-8 .
  • The American Revolution: Birth of a Nation 1763–1815. CH Beck, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-406-65442-8 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The United States is not a child of the Enlightenment . In: FAZ of November 12, 2016, p. 12.
personal data
SURNAME Hochgeschwender, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg