Religion and the Cold War : a global perspective / edited by Philip E. Muehlenbeck.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Muehlenbeck, Philip E. (Philip Emil)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cold War--Religious aspects.

Cold War.

Religion and state--History--20th century.

Religion and state.

Religion and politics--History--20th century.

Religion and politics.

World politics--1945-1989.

World politics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Place of Publication:

Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The lines of armed conflict, and the catastrophic perils they portended, were shaped with shocking clarity in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Less clear is the role religious ideology played in the conflicts that defined the Cold War era. All too often, beliefs held sacred by some became tools to motivate action or create friction. In Religion and the Cold War, Philip Muehlenbeck assembles an international team of specialists to explore how religion informed the ideological and military clashes across the globe in the second half of the twentieth century. Students and scholars will find in this volume a level of comprehensiveness rarely achieved in Cold War studies. Each chapter reveals that the power and influence of ideas are just as important as military might in the struggles between superpowersand that few ideas, then as now, carry as much force as religious ideology. As Muehlenbeck and his contributors demonstrate, no area of the world, and no religious tenet, was safe from the manipulations of a powerful set of players focused solely on their own sphere of influence.

Contents:

An early attempt to rip the Iron Curtain : the Pomak question, 1945-1947 / Argyris Mamarelis

The western allies, German churches, and the emerging Cold War in Germany, 1948-1952 / JonDavid K. Wyneken

From sermon to strategy : religious influence on the formation and implementation of US foreign policy in the early Cold War / Jonathan Herzog

Hewlett Johnson : Britain's "red dean" and the Cold War / David Ayers

Rising to the occasion : the role of American missionaries and Korean pastors in resisting communism throughout the Korean War / Kai Yin Allison Haga

The "campaign of truth" program : US propaganda in Iraq during the early 1950s / Ahmed Khalid Al-Rawi

Religion and Cold War politics in Ethiopia / Wudu Tafete Kassu

Soviet policies toward Islam : domestic and international considerations / Eren Murat Tasar

Bosnian Muslims during the Cold War : identity between domestic and foreign policy / Aydõn Babuna

Religion, power, and legitimacy in Ngo Dinh Diem's Republic of Vietnam / Jessica Chapman

Brazil : nation and church during the Cold War / Iain S. Maclean

"I will be devoted to service with my body and soul" : institutionalized atheism of the security service officers in communist Poland, 1944-1989 / Leszek Murat

Political Islam, Jamaat-e-Islami, and Pakistan's role in the Afghan-Soviet War, 1979-1988 / Zahid Shahab Ahmed.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613767172

9780826518545

0826518540

9781280995569

1280995564

OCLC:

802069600