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Mormons As Citizens of a Communist State: A Documentary History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in East Germany, 1945-1990 - Couverture souple

Kuehne, Raymond

 
9780874809930: Mormons As Citizens of a Communist State: A Documentary History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in East Germany, 1945-1990
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0874809932 ISBN 13 : 9780874809930
Editeur : University of Utah Press,U.S., 2010

Synopsis

From 1945 to 1990 communist East Germany was an officially atheistic state. Nevertheless, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints practiced their religion there. Mormons as Citizens of a Communist State is based on primary sources---government and church documents, interviews, and private leters ---to create a documentary history of the church during that historical period.

The history of church-state relations begins with attempts to terminate the church's legal status in the early 1950s, continues with the building of the Freiberg Temple from 1983 to 1985 (the only LDS temple ever built in a communist state), and concludes with the historic meeting in 1988 between current LDS Church President Tomas S. Monson and Chairman Erich Honecker that permitted the entry of LDS missionaries from the West.

The relationship between the Latter-day Saint citizens and their atheistic government is a major theme of this book. Did church members manage to be true to their faith and simultaneously function as citizens within that state, and if so, how did they achieve that balance?

Mormons as Citizens of a Communist State was originally published in German in 2008 by Leipzig University Press.

Winner of the Mormon History Association Geraldine McBride Woodward Award for Best Publication in International Mormon History.

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À propos de l'auteur

Raymond M. Kuehne was born in New York City of German immigrant parents and has studied as a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Marburg and as a National Woodrow Wilson Fellow at the University of Virginia. He served in the North German Mission and the Freiberg Temple Mission. Mormons as Citizens of a Communist State was originally published in German in February of 2008.

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Éditeur
University of Utah Press,U.S.
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0874809932
ISBN 13 
9780874809930
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
470
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