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Description for Saving Germany
Paperback. With Nazism defeated and Communism encroaching, Christian missionaries left for Germany to fight for the soul of a nation. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBJD1; HR. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
Historians have mainly concentrated on the significance of the Marshall Plan, the creation of NATO, and exports of pop culture to describe the role of North Americans in the development of West Germany after the devastation of the Second World War. In Saving Germany, James Enns brings an entirely new focus to West Germany's recovery by demonstrating how North American missionaries played a formative role in cultivating the humanitarian and spiritual conscience of postwar Germany. Enns begins by categorizing the kinds of Protestant missionary agencies active in West Germany, which ranged from mainline churches overseeing ecumenical humanitarian and church ... Read more
Historians have mainly concentrated on the significance of the Marshall Plan, the creation of NATO, and exports of pop culture to describe the role of North Americans in the development of West Germany after the devastation of the Second World War. In Saving Germany, James Enns brings an entirely new focus to West Germany's recovery by demonstrating how North American missionaries played a formative role in cultivating the humanitarian and spiritual conscience of postwar Germany. Enns begins by categorizing the kinds of Protestant missionary agencies active in West Germany, which ranged from mainline churches overseeing ecumenical humanitarian and church ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9780773549135
SKU
V9780773549135
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About James Enns
James Enns is professor of history at Prairie College.
Reviews for Saving Germany
" By shedding light on an aspect of history that has been sorely neglected, James Enns makes a wonderful contribution to the new literature on Christian missions. By examining Western missions to Westerners - that is, American missions to the Germans, a people with a manifestly Western and Christian heritage - he complicates our understanding of cultural imperialism and Western/Christian ... Read more