Turning Prayers into Protests: Religious-based Activism and its Challenge to State Power in Socialist Slovakia and East Germany
Turning Prayers into Protests: Religious-based Activism and its Challenge to State Power in Socialist Slovakia and East Germany
by David Doellinger
Central European University Press, 2013 Cloth: 978-615-5225-78-9 | eISBN: 978-615-5225-79-6 (PDF) Library of Congress Classification BX1582.4.D64 2013 Dewey Decimal Classification 284.143109048
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Turning Prayers into Protests is a comparative study of religious-based oppositional activity in Slovakia and East Germany prior to 1989.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
David Doellinger is Professor of History at Western Oregon University. He is the author of Turning Prayers into Protests: Religious-Based Activism and its Challenge to State Power in Socialist Slovakia and East Germany (2013).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1. Catholics, Protestants and the State 2. Finding a Space to Think and Act Freely 3. Independent Publishing and Communication Networks 4. Constructing New Public Spaces 5. From Prayers to Protests 6. Archipelagos of Grass-Roots Activism 7. The Revolutions of 1989 Conclusion Epilogue Glossary Bibliography Index