Ask the Author: Kimba Allie Tichenor
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Kimba Allie Tichenor
Hi Justin, I am afraid that I cannot share my opinion of Winder's trilogy on the Hapsburg, as I have not read his works. But if you are interested in the Hapsburg Empire, you might also enjoy Pieter Judson's, The Hapsburg Empire: A New History.
Kimba Allie Tichenor
This summer I am tackling a mix of books -- from theoretical texts such as Marcella Althausreid's Indecent Theology: Theological Perversions in Sex, Gender and Politics to histories such as Janet Jacobs' Memorializing the Holocaust: Gender, Genocide and Collective Memory. I also want to read some books that explore processes of globalization from a historical perspective and of course some mysteries for fun.
Kimba Allie Tichenor
I love ice cream. So when I don't want to write or work on a project, I tell myself if I write x number of pages, I can have ice cream. It works every time for me. So pick something you really love and use it as an award when you reach set goals.
Kimba Allie Tichenor
I have always been interested in how religious belief informs political debates in societies that define themselves as secular. As a German historian, I knew that most books on Catholicism in West Germany assumed a brief resurgence of religious influence in the 1950s, but this influence ended by the mid-1960s. This loss of influence was associated with the collapse of the milieu. Certainly this milieu did collapse, but the role of the Catholic Church in the 1970s abortion debate in Germany suggested that Catholicism's influence on German politics was far from over. So what I wanted to know was if the so-called Catholic milieu that shaped Catholic life from cradle to grave was in fact dead, what had replaced it? And how is it even to this day a much smaller Catholic Church in Germany continues to exercise significant influence, especially on issues of gender and sexuality?
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