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Record Nr.

UNINA9911008418303321

Autore

Goeckel Robert

Titolo

The Lutheran Church and the East German State : Political Conflict and Change under Ulbricht and Honecker / / Robert Goeckel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2019]

©1990

ISBN

9781501745836

1501745832

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 p.) : 1 map

Disciplina

284.1/431

Soggetti

German Studies

Political Science & Political History

HISTORY / Europe / Germany

Germany (East) Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations and German Terms -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Church and State -- 3. Socialist Transformation and the German Question, 1945-1958 -- 4. The EKD Split and Formation of the Kirchenbund, 19 5 8-1969 -- 5. Nonrecognition of the Kirchenbund, 1969-1971 -- 6. From Recognition to Limited Rapprochement, 197I-1972 -- 7. Deepening Rapprochement, 1973-1978 -- 8. Testing the New Relationship, I978-I989 -- 9. The Character and Limitations of Change -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Robert Goeckel here explains why, despite the ideological antagonism between Marxism-Leninism and Christianity, a working relationship developed between East Germany's Communist rulers and the country's Evangelical Lutheran Church. By reconstructing how the church won a measure of autonomy and became a forum for dissent, The Lutheran Church and the East German State deepens our understanding of the popular forces that swept the Honecker regime from power in the fall of 1989.