02663nam 22005295 450 991100841830332120191126113341.09781501745836150174583210.7591/9781501745836(CKB)4100000009678118(DE-B1597)534314(OCoLC)1129172307(DE-B1597)9781501745836(MiAaPQ)EBC31211774(Au-PeEL)EBL31211774(EXLCZ)99410000000967811820191126d2019 fg engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Lutheran Church and the East German State Political Conflict and Change under Ulbricht and Honecker /Robert Goeckel1st ed.Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]©19901 online resource (344 p.) 1 map9780801422591 0801422590 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 -- IndexRobert 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.German StudiesPolitical Science & Political HistoryHISTORY / Europe / GermanybisacshGermany (East)Church historyGerman Studies.Political Science & Political History.HISTORY / Europe / Germany.284.1/431Goeckel Robert, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1826420DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9911008418303321The Lutheran Church and the East German State4394410UNINA