Turning Prayers into Protests: Religious-Based Activism and its Challenge to State Power in Socialist Slovakia and East Germany
Author:   David Doellinger (Professor of History, Western Oregon University)
Publisher:   Central European University Press
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9786155225789


Pages:   302
Publication Date:   10 September 2013
Format:   Hardback
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Turning Prayers into Protests: Religious-Based Activism and its Challenge to State Power in Socialist Slovakia and East Germany


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Turning Prayers into Protests is comparative study of grass-roots religious activity in Slovakia and East Germany prior to 1989. Religion was a central arena for culture, thought, social organization, kinship and ritual in the societies that became communist after the Second World War. It was thus a primary concern for communist regimes. The author examines the ways in which these regimes targeted religion and the various and divergent roles of the Catholic Church in Slovakia and the Lutheran Church in East Germany in the response to state socialist rule and its eventual dismantling. He compares the two cases in terms of the political power, influence and affect that these Churches had in regard to state repression or cooptation, vividly demonstrating that religion could provide a space for independence beyond state control as well as a foundation for resistance.

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Author:   David Doellinger (Professor of History, Western Oregon University)
Publisher:   Central European University Press
Imprint:   Central European University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.546kg
ISBN:  

9786155225789


ISBN 10:   6155225788
Pages:   302
Publication Date:   10 September 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1. Catholics, Protestants and the State 2. Finding a Space to Think and Act Freely 3. Independent Publishing and Communication Networks 4. Constructing New Public Spaces 5. From Prayers to Protests 6. Archipelagos of Grass-Roots Activism 7. The Revolutions of 1989 Conclusion Epilogue Glossary Bibliography Index

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Doellinger is Associate Professor of History, Western Oregon University

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