1st Edition
Turning Prayers into Protests Religious-based Activism and its Challenge to State Power in Socialist Slovakia and East Germany
By David Doellinger
Copyright 2013
302 Pages
by
Central European University Press
Turning Prayers into Protests is a comparative study of religious-based oppositional activity in Slovakia and East Germany prior to 1989.
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
Biography
David Doellinger is professor of history at Western Oregon University.
