Inhalt / Contents

Einleitung … 207

Introduction … 209

Zusammenfassungen der Aufsätze … 211

Abstracts … 227

Aufsätze und Essays / Articles

Gerhard Besier
Does National Mythmaking End at the Border? … 233

Andrea Strübind
Religious Myths of Reconciliation … 244

Anders Jarlert
The Myth of Sweden as a peace-power state and its religious Motivations … 257

Dag Thorkildsen
Norwegian National Myths and Nation Building … 263

Inge Adriansen
The Danish national flag as a gift from God – a national-religious myth … 278

Kimmo Katajala
Finland – the Last Outpost of Western Civilization? Explaining the Myth and Metaphor … 300

Laura Asarite
Euro-myths in Latvia: The Bear of Luck or the Evil Conqueror … 311

Kyle Jantzen
Church-Building in Hitler’s Germany Berlin’s Martin-Luther-Gedächtniskirche as a Reflection of Church-State Relations … 325

Franziska Metzger
Religion and Myth: Narratives – Discursive Mechanisms – Effects. The Example of Catholic Historiography in 19th and early 20th Century Switzerland … 350

Christian Pletzing
Legendary Martyr: Maximilian Kolbe … 365

Katarzyna Stokłosa
Nationalism and the Church in the German-Polish border region after World War II … 375

Andrea Varriale
The myth of the Italian Resistance Movement (1943–1945). The Case of Naples … 384

Buchbesprechungen / Book Reviews … 395

Rückschau/Vorschau / Review/Preview … 407