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Karla Poewe Quotes

b. 1941 Germany

Karla Poewe (born 1941) is an anthropologist and historian.

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While the constitutions of Western liberal democracies preserve the freedom of new religions, I am not sure whether new religions, including New Age and neo-Paganism, preserve western liberal democracies. In Weimar they did not.

Goebbels followed the stations of political ideologization from Catholicism toward freer forms of a Christian view of the world and self (as in liberal theology) and then National-Socialism. (p. 7)

The new religions founded in the pre-Nazi and Nazi years, especially Jakob Hauer’s German Faith Movement, would be a model for how German fascism distilled aspects of religious doctrine into political extremism.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Karla Poewe (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.