Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Jerusalem Quarterly (Institute of Jerusalem Studies)
Angaben zur Quelle:
82 (2020) 77-86
Keywords:
Dalman, Gustaf,
;
Germans Biography
;
Germans Attitudes
;
World War, 1914-1918 Campaigns
;
World War, 1914-1918 Participation, German
;
Aerial photography
;
Eretz Israel In Christianity
Abstract:
This article explores the cultural imperialist identities that accompanied the semicolonial policy of the German Empire during World War I. It examines the imaginations that interwove representations of the German imperial self, apparent in visual and textual artefacts in the archival material of the German air force mission, as well as in the academic and institutional work of German Protestant theologian and Orientalist Gustav Dalman (1855–1941). The author shows how two aspects (the secular and the religious) of the German mission civilisatrice, the ideological backbone of its colonial ambitions, are reflected in the ways that the imagery of Palestine is created and connected within the struggle for power in the Near East. The author argues that the German secular mission went hand in hand with its aspirations to evangelize the Orient. The religious mission is evident in the aspirations of Dalman's social milieu by interpreting modernity against the background of biblical salvation history as the “end of times.” In this regard, Palestine was perceived as both: a place of salvation history as well as a power and cultural- political influence zone.
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