Johann Joachim Spaldingâs 1778 Kriegs-Gebeth: Church Prayers (Kirchengebete), War Prayers (Kriegsgebete), and the Patriotic and National Discourse in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany

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Chapter 1 Johann Joachim Spaldingâs 1778 Kriegs-Gebeth: Church Prayers (Kirchengebete), War Prayers (Kriegsgebete), and the Patriotic and National Discourse in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany

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This chapter aims to promote a more nuanced narrative of the debate about the nation, fatherland, nationalism, and patriotism in the latter part of the eighteenth century in Germany. It focusses on the specific genre of the publicly declaimed church prayer using the example of a 1778 war-time church prayer composed by the highly renowned and widely respected Enlightenment theologian Johann Joachim Spalding (1714â1804) at the beginning of the War of the Bavarian Succession 1778â79. This case offers insights into the complexity of debates about patriotism and nationalism with regard to the educated elites in Prussia. Although Spalding was no admirer of Frederick ii, his king ordered this most revered man of the church to compose the prayer which by definition constituted an intrusion of the state into the religious worship in every protestant church of the country. The debate it sparked is a clear indication that during the War of the Bavarian Succession, intellectuals were very much sensitised against forms of (patriotic/national) partisanship. This case also refutes the idea of a straight line of development from patriotic sentiments during the Seven Yearsâ War towards the nationalistic rhetoric during the Wars of Liberation.

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Nationalism before the Nation State

Literary Constructions of Inclusion, Exclusion, and Self-Definition (1756â1871)

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