The politics of religion in Soviet-occupied Germany : the case of Berlin-Brandenburg, 1945-1949 / Sean Brennan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brennan, Sean (Sean Philip), 1979-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and politics--Germany--Berlin--History--20th century.

Christianity and politics.

Christianity and politics--Germany--Brandenburg--History--20th century.

Communism and Christianity--Germany--Berlin--History.

Communism and Christianity.

Communism and Christianity--Germany--Brandenburg--History.

History.

Berlin (Germany)--Church history--1945-.

Berlin (Germany).

Brandenburg (Germany : State)--Church history--1945-.

Brandenburg (Germany : State).

Germany--Brandenburg (State).

Germany--Berlin.

Physical Description:

xxix, 235 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2011]

Summary:

The Politics of Religion in Soviet-Occupied Germany illuminates the religious policies of the Soviet military authorities and their allies in the Socialist Unity Party in the Soviet zone, and more importantly, who devised these policies and how they implemented them. Brennan illustrates how the Soviet authorities recreated the Soviet zone along Stalinist lines with regard to religious policy, focusing on the Soviet zone, and in particular its most important province, Berlin-Brandenburg. This book also demonstrates how the church leaders responded to these policies, especially as they became increasingly antireligious. Book jacket.

Contents:

The brown dictatorship before the red: the German churches under national socialism

The question of the CDU and the churches during the period of the "antifascist transformation, "1945-1947

The Volkscongress movement and the end of the CDU's political independence, December 1946 -October1949

"Unity schools are secular schools": the struggle over religious education in the secondary schools of Berlin Brandenburg

The competition between socialist and religious youth and women's organizations in Berlin-Brandenburg

The conflict over charitable activity by the evangelical and Catholic churches in Berlin-Brandenburg

"Christianity and Marxism are not in opposition": the propaganda offensive in East Germany concerning "religious freedom" under communism

The Allied Religious Affairs Committee and the impossibility of a united religious policy for Germany.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739151259

0739151258

9780739151273

0739151274

OCLC:

744300606