Kulturkampf

American  

[kool-toor-kahmpf] / kʊlˈturˌkɑmpf /

noun

1. the conflict between the German imperial government and the Roman Catholic Church from 1872 or 1873 until 1886, chiefly over the control of education and ecclesiastical appointments.

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Kulturkampf British  

/ kʊlˈtʊəˌkæmpf, ˈkʊltə- /

noun

1. the struggle of the Prussian state against the Roman Catholic Church (1872–87), which took the form of laws designed to bring education, marriage, etc, under the control of the state

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Etymology

Origin of Kulturkampf

< German: culture struggle, equivalent to Kultur culture + Kampf battle, struggle (cognate with Old English camp ); camp ¹, kemp ¹

Example Sentences

They are leading a 21st-century Kulturkampf against women’s rights, gay rights, minority rights, individual dignity — the whole progressive package.

From Seattle Times

He sidesteps the Kulturkampf issues — which statues to take down — to simply talk about helping the middle class.

From Seattle Times

Kotleba’s Kulturkampf continued in other areas, as he cancelled a contemporary dance festival he deemed to contain “pornography”, as well as an EU-funded project to resettle people with mental disabilities from a decaying communist-era facility into smaller supported housing units, and reintegrate them into society.

From The Guardian

Mr. Hunter got his title from Otto von Bismarck’s Kulturkampf, the late-19th-century effort to absorb Germany’s Roman Catholic south into its Protestant north.

From The Wall Street Journal

The word Kulturkampf translates more literally into “cultural struggle,” but Mr. Hunter feels his tweak was justified.

From The Wall Street Journal