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Brandon Bloch

@brandonbloch.bsky.social
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Historian of modern Germany, Central Europe, and human rights. "Reinventing Protestant Germany," forthcoming with Harvard UP, Aug. 2025.

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cmnd.bsky.social @cmnd.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
In part two of this CM conversation, brandonbloch.bsky.social interviews Udi Greenberg about _The End of Schism_. Together they discuss the forces that led to new levels of cooperation between Protestants and Catholics in Europe in the mid-20th century. contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...
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The Politics of Protestant-Catholic Reconciliation in Europe: Brandon Bloch Interviews Udi Greenberg | Contending Modernities
Catholics and Protestants understood each other vis-à-vis new movements that sought to transform economic, gendered, and colonial orders.
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Brandon Bloch @brandonbloch.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Excited to see my interview with Udi Greenberg on "Reinventing Protestant Germany" published @cmnd.bsky.social : contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...
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Protestant Germany after Nazism: Udi Greenberg Interviews Brandon Bloch | Contending Modernities
Postwar Protestant intellectuals spearheaded a complementary but distinct form of secularization: one in which the church did not retreat from politics but identified itself as the very source of secu...
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Brandon Bloch @brandonbloch.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
I'm so pleased to share that my first book, "Reinventing Protestant Germany," appears today with @harvardpress.bsky.social. It offers a new take on West Germany's winding path toward postwar democracy, highlighting the ambivalent role of the Protestant Church. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
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Reinventing Protestant Germany — Harvard University Press
A revealing account of how German Protestant leaders embraced democratic ideals after WWII, while firmly and consequentially refusing to account for their earlier complicity with Nazism.Germany’s Prot...
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Felix A. Jiménez Botta @felixjimenezbotta.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
My book, Latin America and Human Rights Politics in West Germany, 1973–1990, is out this September! Thanks to Devin Pendas, Quinn Slobodian, Lora Wildenthal, @historyned.bsky.social, @laurenstokes.bsky.social, and @willgray.bsky.social for their support! www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
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Latin America and Human Rights Politics in West Germany, 1973–1990
Cambridge Core - European Studies - Latin America and Human Rights Politics in West Germany, 1973–1990
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Brandon Bloch @brandonbloch.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Finally decided to join @bsky.app !
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