kulturkampf

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The problem is trying to make any deal stick without precipitating violent national kulturkampf.

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  1. A struggle for civilization: a name given to the conflict between the imperial government of Germany and the Roman Church, which lasted from 1872 till 1886. The name was first given to it by Virchow, in one of his electoral manifestos, to imply that it was a struggle of principle between the teaching of the Roman Church and that of modern civilization. In Germany, when the Pontificate of Leo XIII. began, a disastrous conflict between the Imperial Government and the Church was in progress. It was called the Kulturkampf, as professing to be undertaken on behalf of civilization and culture; but it had originated in the belief, instilled into the Government by interested persons, that the Vatican Decrees on Infallibility were issued for a political purpose. Encyc. Brit., XXXII. 271.

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  • The problem is trying to make any deal stick without precipitating violent national kulturkampf. —  TPMCafe
  • Sarah Palin -- the right's latest kulturkampf gambit —  Vento Sueste
  • The first modern kulturkampf took place the 1870s and 80s in Europe by Bismarck, chancellor of the German Empire, against the Catholic church, its leaders, and also against the Catholic political party (the Center party) and other Catholic social, cultural, and educational institutions. —  HALFWAY TO CONCORD
  • This same kulturkampf reared its very ugly head in the U.S. in the 19th century as American Protestantism battled Catholicism with Blaine Amendments and other legal restrictions on faith. —  HALFWAY TO CONCORD
  • But the kulturkampf was a battle against the very institutions, the faith-based organizations or parachurch ministries, through which people of particular religious convictions preserve, develop, propagate, and exemplify those convictions in society. —  HALFWAY TO CONCORD
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  1. German, from kultur, culture, civilization, + kampf, fight.
 

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