Britain and the German Churches, 1945-1950: The Role of the Religious Affairs Branch in the British Zone

Author:   Rev Dr Peter Howson
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN:  

9781783275830


Pages:   305
Publication Date:   18 June 2021
Format:   Hardback
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Explores the ways in which the British Religious Affairs Branch aimed to organise religious life in post-war Germany. It is well known that at the key allied conferences during the latter part of World War II the future victorious allies were already progressing their post-war planning. Duly, an Allied Control Commission, with the task of providing administrative functions and eventually handing them over to an elected government, was formed in post-war Germany. In the Western zones, the cornerstone of coordinated administration was a policy of denazification, demilitarisation and democratization. Almost all sectors of German life would thereafter to be administered by the Allies. German Churches and religious affairs had, however, been promised to the defeated Germany. Of course, Nazism hadn't spared the Christian churches, and so questions of denazification and the future relationship between church and state in Germany remained significant. This book examines the British approach towards post-war German religious and ecclesiastical life by highlighting the role of the British Element of the Control Commission, more specifically the Religious Affairs Branch that was separated from the Education Branch at the end of 1945. Considering British attitudes to Catholics and Protestants, as well as the remaining Jewish and Muslim communities in Germany, this book uncovers allied differences with regards to organising future religious life in Germany.

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Author:   Rev Dr Peter Howson
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   The Boydell Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9781783275830


ISBN 10:   1783275839
Pages:   305
Publication Date:   18 June 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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A tour de force of research and analysis that has much to teach us today. * METHODIST RECORDER *


A tour de force of research and analysis that has much to teach us today. * METHODIST RECORDER * There is much of value to learn from this patient, often meticulous, book. Peter Howson is surely to be congratulated for providing us with an admirable book which certainly fills a hole in contemporary church historiography. * Journal of Ecclesiastical History *


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PETER HOWSON is the author of Padre, Prisoner and Pen-Pusher. The World War One Experiences of the Reverend Benjamin O'Rorke and Muddling Through. The Organisation of British Army Chaplaincy in World War One. For Boydell's Church of England Record Society Series, he edited The First World War Diaries of the Rt. Rev. Llewellyn Gwynne (2019). As a member of the Royal Army Chaplains' Department Howson served in Germany during the period 1977to 1997.

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