Course

Faith and Totalitarianism – Church in Nazi-Germany and the Soviet Union

The course literature may be subject to revision.

Arendt, Hanna, 2016. Totalitarismens ursprung. Göteborg: Daidalos. S. 405-598. (193 sid.)

Bergen, Doris L., 1996. Twisted Cross: The German Christian Movement in the Third Reich. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. S. 1-230 (230 sid.)

Bodin, Per-Arne 1993. ”Ur djupen ropar jag”: kyrka och teologi i 1900-talets Ryssland. Svenska kyrkans forskningsråd, Uppsala. S. 41-69, 77-84, 95-113 (52 sid.) [Tillgänglig på kurshemsida med författarens tillstånd]

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 2006. Motstånd och underkastelse: brev och anteckningar från fängelset. övers. Janne Carlsson, Stockholm: Cordia. (247 sid.)

Dobson, Miriam och Ziemann, Benjamin (red.), 2009. Reading Primary Sources: The interpretation of texts from nineteenth- and twentieth-century history. London: Routledge. S. 21-36, 57-73, 175-191 (46 sid.)

Kälvemark, Torsten, 2018. Katedralen som sprängdes: den ryska kyrkans martyrium 1918-1938. Skellefteå: Artos & Norma. (182 sid.)

Ryrie, Alec, 2017. Protestants: The Radicals Who Made the Modern World. London: William Collins. S. 238-264 (26 sid. e-bok)

Solzjenitsyn, Aleksandr, 2009. En dag i Ivan Denisovitj liv. Stockholm: Bonniers förlag. (ca. 85 sid)

Wurmbrand, Sabina, 1970. Mitt möte med kommunismen. Stockholm: Gummesson. (219 sid)/ 2013. The Pastor’s Wife. Bartlesville: VOM Books (7:e utg.) eller ngn tidigare utgåva
eller
Wurmbrand, Richard, 2005. Torterad för Kristi skull. Örebro: Evangeliipress. (122 sid)/2017. Tortured for Christ. 50th anniversary ed. Colorado Springs: David C. Cook. (eller ngn tidigare utgåva).

Literature last revised on March 25, 2020.

The schedule is available at the latest one month before the course starts. We do not recommend that you print the schedule as some changes may happen.

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Joseph Sverker

Teol. dr, Senior lecturer, Head of subject

08-564 357 10

joseph.sverker@ehs.se

Grades

A = Excellent, B = Very good, C = Good, D = Satisfactory, E = Sufficient, Fx = Insufficient, F = Insufficient

Examination Format

  • Papers
  • Seminars
  • Take-home examination

Grundläggande behörighet.
Kurser i teologi 60 hp: Baskurser 30 hp samt kurserna Text, kontext och tolkning 15 hp och Teologi, religion och kyrka i Sverige 15 hp, eller motsvarande.

  • Completion of a course requires a minimum of 80% attendance at lectures and 100% attendance at seminars/group work and other assignments. Absence beyond that can be compensated by supplementing assignment(s) if the instructor finds it possible. In case of an absence of 50% or more, the course is considered as interrupted, even if assignments have been completed.
  • Students have the opportunity to take the exam according to the original course syllabus within two years after the course. If there are special reasons, such a re-examination can also take place later. Normally, teaching is not given according to an older syllabus. The possibility of exemption shall be decided by the president or vice president.
  • If a student due to disability has a decision from the EHS on special pedagogical support, the examiner shall, if necessary, adapt the examination and conduct the examination in an alternative way.

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