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Heresy or Ideal Society? A Study of Early Anabaptism as Minority Religion in German Fiction

Jany, Ursula Berit
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1370895011

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2013, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Germanic Languages and Literatures.
Anabaptism, a radical reform movement originating during the sixteenth-century European Reformation, sought to attain discipleship to Christ by a separation from the religious and worldly powers of early modern society. In my critical reading of the movement’s representations in German fiction dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, I explore how authors have fictionalized the religious minority, its commitment to particular theological and ethical aspects, its separation from society, and its experience of persecution. As part of my analysis, I trace the early historical development of the group and take inventory of its chief characteristics to observe which of these aspects are selected for portrayal in fictional texts. Within this research framework, my study investigates which social and religious principles drawn from historical accounts and sources influence the minority’s image as an ideal society, on the one hand, and its stigmatization as a heretical and seditious sect, on the other. As a result of this analysis, my study reveals authors’ underlying programmatic aims and ideological convictions cloaked by their literary articulations of conflict-laden encounters between society and the religious minority.
Barbara Becker-Cantarino (Advisor)
Anna Grotans (Committee Member)
Katra Byram (Committee Member)
Germanic Literature

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  • Jany, U. B. (2013). Heresy or Ideal Society? A Study of Early Anabaptism as Minority Religion in German Fiction [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1370895011

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Jany, Ursula. Heresy or Ideal Society? A Study of Early Anabaptism as Minority Religion in German Fiction. 2013. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1370895011.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Jany, Ursula. "Heresy or Ideal Society? A Study of Early Anabaptism as Minority Religion in German Fiction." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1370895011

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