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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
Raymond Kuehne
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Paperback. The first objective study of the history and experiences of the thousands of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints living in communist East Germany between 1945 and 1990. Num Pages: 450 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCC99. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 175 x 25. Weight in Grams: 816.
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 letters ---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 ... Read more
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 letters ---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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
470
Place of Publication
Salt Lake City, United States
ISBN
9780874809930
SKU
V9780874809930
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About Raymond Kuehne
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 ... Read more
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