Although seen widely as the 20th century's great religious war, as a conflict between the god-fearing and the godless, the religious dimension of the Cold War has never been subjected to a scholarly critique. This unique study shows why religion is a key Cold War variable. A specially commissioned c
Religion and the Cold War
β Scribed by Dianne Kirby (eds.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 259
- Series
- Cold War History Series
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Religion and the Cold War β An Introduction....Pages 1-22
Domestic and Foreign Policy Considerations and the Origins of Post-war Soviet Church-State Relations, 1941β6....Pages 23-36
The German Protestant Debate on Politics and Theology after the Second World War....Pages 37-49
Pope Pius XII and the Cold War: The Post-war Confrontation between Catholicism and Communism....Pages 50-66
The Lonely Cold War of Pope Pius XII....Pages 67-76
Harry Trumanβs Religious Legacy: The Holy Alliance, Containment and the Cold War....Pages 77-102
The Vatican, Italy and the Cold War....Pages 103-117
The United States and the Vatican in Yugoslavia, 1945β50....Pages 118-144
Cold War on High and Unity from Below: The French Communist Party and the Catholic Church in the Early Years of the Gaullist Fifth Republic....Pages 145-162
Between War and Peace: Politics, Religion and Human Rights in Early Cold War Canada, 1945β50....Pages 163-187
The Clergy, the Cold War and the Mission of the Local Church; England ca. 1945β60....Pages 188-199
The Rehabilitation of Martin Luther in the GDR; or, Why Thomas MΓΌntzer Failed to Stabilise the Moorings of Socialist Ideology....Pages 200-210
βMartyrs, Miracles and Martiansβ: Religion and Cold War Cinematic Propaganda in the 1950s....Pages 211-231
Back Matter....Pages 232-245
β¦ Subjects
History of Philosophy; History of Science; European History; Political History; Modern History; History of the Americas
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