CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2007
| Author | Cercel, Cristian Alexandru |
|---|---|
| Title | The Relationship between Religious and National Identity in the Case of Transylvanian Saxons: 1933-1944 |
| Summary | This thesis analyzes the radicalization undergone by the Transylvanian Saxon community between 1933 and 1940 from an identity studies perspective. My hypothesis is that the Nazification of the Saxon minority in Romania was accompanied by a relegation of the Lutheran religious affiliation from the status of a criterion of identity to that of an indicium. In order to prove the validity of the argument, I resorted to the analysis of a various number of sources, such as articles from the official periodical of the Lutheran Church, diaries and contemporary documents. Consequently, the thesis documents the submissive integration of the Saxon identity into the broader German ‘imagined community’ that took place against the background of Hitler’s rise to power in Germany and of the Second World War. |
| Supervisor | Kovacs, Andras |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2007/cercel_cristian.pdf |
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