LEADER 03684nam 2200493 450 001 9910160346603321 005 20170426085716.0 010 $a0-7735-4915-3 010 $a0-7735-4914-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773549142 035 $a(CKB)3710000001021044 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4787307 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/srh710 035 $a(DE-B1597)655326 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773549142 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001021044 100 $a20170130h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aSaving Germany $eNorth American Protestants and Christian mission to West Germany, 1945 1974 /$fJames Enns 210 1$aMontreal & Kingston, Quebec ;$aLondon, [England] ;$aChicago, [Illinois] :$cMcGill-Queen's University Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (329 pages) 225 1 $aMcGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion, ;$v77 311 $a0-7735-4912-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAbbreviations -- $tSaving Germany: Not Your Typical Mission Field -- $tEcumenical Protestants and the Reconstruction of Germany, 1945?1974: Mainline Protestants Offer Relief and Rehabilitation -- $tDenominational Protestant Missions to Germany, 1945?1974: Mennonites and Baptists Resuscitate and Rehabilitate the Freikirchen -- $tConservative Evangelical Mission to Germany, 1945?1974: Two Case Studies -- $tBilly Graham?s Mission to Germany, 1945?1974: From Cold War Crusader to Good Samaritan -- $tMission to Germany after 1974: Responding to Post-Christendom Secularism -- $tSaving Germany: The Significance of the Mission -- $tNotes -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aHistorians have mainly concentrated on the significance of the Marshall Plan, the creation of NATO, and exports of pop culture to describe the role of North Americans in the development of West Germany after the devastation of the Second World War. In Saving Germany, James Enns brings an entirely new focus to West Germany?s recovery by demonstrating how North American missionaries played a formative role in cultivating the humanitarian and spiritual conscience of postwar Germany. Enns begins by categorizing the kinds of Protestant missionary agencies active in West Germany, which ranged from mainline churches overseeing ecumenical humanitarian and church reconstruction projects to independent evangelical mission agencies working alongside local church groups. He then identifies notable themes that contextualize the spectrum of missionary responses, including the degree to which missionaries intentionally functioned as agents of Western democracy. In addition to discussions of well-known figures such as US evangelist Billy Graham, Enns highlights the important contributions of the Janz Quartet from the Canadian prairies and Robert Kreider of the Mennonite Central Committee. Tracking thirty years of transnational Christian missionary work, Saving Germany demonstrates the significant role of North American missionary agencies in the reconstruction of Germany. 410 0$aMcGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion ;$v77. 606 $aEvangelicalism$zGermany (West)$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aEvangelicalism$xHistory 676 $a274.3082 686 $aNQ 6085$2rvk 700 $aEnns$b James$0908420 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910160346603321 996 $aSaving Germany$92031826 997 $aUNINA