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Turning Prayers into Protests : Religious-Based Activism and Its Challenge to State Power in Socialist Slovakia and East Germany.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Budapest : Central European University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (304 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9786155225796
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Turning Prayers into ProtestsLOC classification:
  • BX1582.4.D64 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Catholics, Protestants, and the State -- Czechoslovakia: Repression of the Catholic Church -- German Democratic Republic: Autonomy in the Evangelical Church -- Summary -- 2 Finding a Space to Think and Act Freely -- The Slovak Secret Church -- Constructing Peace and Pursuing Reconciliation in the GDR -- Aktion Sühnezeichen -- Bausoldaten: Unarmed Military Service -- Summary -- 3 Independent Publishing and Communication Networks -- The Secret Church's Samizdat Network -- Church Publications in the GDR -- Summary -- 4 Constructing New Public Spaces -- The Polish Pope: John Paul II -- The 1985 Velehrad Pilgrimage -- Slovak Pilgrimages: A New Public Space -- East Germany: Carving out a Public Space in Leipzig -- Summary -- 5 From Prayers to Protests -- Petitions for Religious Freedom -- The Good Friday Demonstration: March 25, 1988 -- Tentative Steps out of the Church's Protective Cover in East Germany -- AG Friedensdienst: Between Church Support and Conflict -- Summary -- 6 Archipelagos of Grassroots Activism -- Streams of Independent Activity in Slovakia -- The Movement for Civic Freedom: A New Strategy of Opposition -- The Bratislava Five -- Archipelagos of Activity in the GDR -- Prayer-for-Peace Services and New Tensions between Grassroots Groups and the Church -- Summary -- 7 The Revolutions of 1989 -- Public Against Violence: From the Telephones to the Streets -- Church and Revolution -- Leipzig: An Epicenter of the East German Revolution -- Summary -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back cover.
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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Catholics, Protestants, and the State -- Czechoslovakia: Repression of the Catholic Church -- German Democratic Republic: Autonomy in the Evangelical Church -- Summary -- 2 Finding a Space to Think and Act Freely -- The Slovak Secret Church -- Constructing Peace and Pursuing Reconciliation in the GDR -- Aktion Sühnezeichen -- Bausoldaten: Unarmed Military Service -- Summary -- 3 Independent Publishing and Communication Networks -- The Secret Church's Samizdat Network -- Church Publications in the GDR -- Summary -- 4 Constructing New Public Spaces -- The Polish Pope: John Paul II -- The 1985 Velehrad Pilgrimage -- Slovak Pilgrimages: A New Public Space -- East Germany: Carving out a Public Space in Leipzig -- Summary -- 5 From Prayers to Protests -- Petitions for Religious Freedom -- The Good Friday Demonstration: March 25, 1988 -- Tentative Steps out of the Church's Protective Cover in East Germany -- AG Friedensdienst: Between Church Support and Conflict -- Summary -- 6 Archipelagos of Grassroots Activism -- Streams of Independent Activity in Slovakia -- The Movement for Civic Freedom: A New Strategy of Opposition -- The Bratislava Five -- Archipelagos of Activity in the GDR -- Prayer-for-Peace Services and New Tensions between Grassroots Groups and the Church -- Summary -- 7 The Revolutions of 1989 -- Public Against Violence: From the Telephones to the Streets -- Church and Revolution -- Leipzig: An Epicenter of the East German Revolution -- Summary -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back cover.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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