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Author:

Mormonen und Staatsbürger. English.

Title:

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 ; foreword by Ronald Smelser.

Publisher:

University of Utah Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xvii, 450 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--Germany (East)--History.
Germany (East)--Church history.

Other Authors:

Kuehne, Raymond M.

Notes:

"First published as Mormonen und Staatsbürger : eine dokumentierte Geschichte der Kirche Jesu Christi der Heiligen der Letzten Tage in der DDR by Raymond Kuehne (Hg.), Leipziger Universitätsverlag Press, 2007"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Germany before 1945 -- Soviet military administration, 1945-1949 -- The church-state relationship in the GDR -- The legal status of the LDS church -- Life prior to the Berlin wall, 1949-1961 -- Living with the wall, 1961-1989 -- How Mormons defined citizenship -- Missionary opportunities -- Church youth programs -- Education and employment -- The old meeting houses -- Importing church literature -- Financial administration -- Improved relations in the 1970s and 1980s -- The origins of the Freiberg Temple -- New meeting houses in the 1980s -- The Honecker-Monson meeting, 1988 -- Missionaries enter the GDR, 1989 -- The wende--end of the GDR, 1990 -- President Henry Burkhardt.

ISBN:

0874809932 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780874809930 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)424561486

LCCN:

2010007791

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)