Archive, Photography and the Language of Administration

Archive, Photography and the Language of Administration

  • Author: Birkin, Jane
  • Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
  • Serie: Recursions
  • eISBN Pdf: 9789048553150
  • Place of publication:  Budapest , Hungary
  • Year of digital publication: 2013
  • Month: September
  • Pages: 304
  • DDC: 284.1/43109048
  • Language: English
Turning Prayers into Protests is a comparative study of religious-based oppositional activity in Slovakia and East Germany prior to 1989.
  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1 Catholics, Protestants, and the State
    • Czechoslovakia: Repression of the Catholic Church
    • German Democratic Republic: Autonomy in the Evangelical Church
    • Summary
  • 2 Finding a Space to Think and Act Freely
    • The Slovak Secret Church
    • Constructing Peace and Pursuing Reconciliation in the GDR
    • Aktion Sühnezeichen
    • Bausoldaten: Unarmed Military Service
    • Summary
  • 3 Independent Publishing and Communication Networks
    • The Secret Church’s Samizdat Network
    • Church Publications in the GDR
    • Summary
  • 4 Constructing New Public Spaces
    • The Polish Pope: John Paul II
    • The 1985 Velehrad Pilgrimage
    • Slovak Pilgrimages: A New Public Space
    • East Germany: Carving out a Public Space in Leipzig
    • Summary
  • 5 From Prayers to Protests
    • Petitions for Religious Freedom
    • The Good Friday Demonstration: March 25, 1988
    • Tentative Steps out of the Church’s Protective Cover in East Germany
    • AG Friedensdienst: Between Church Support and Conflict
    • Summary
  • 6 Archipelagos of Grassroots Activism
    • Streams of Independent Activity in Slovakia
    • The Movement for Civic Freedom: A New Strategy of Opposition
    • The Bratislava Five
    • Archipelagos of Activity in the GDR
    • Prayer-for-Peace Services and New Tensions between Grassroots Groups and the Church
    • Summary
  • 7 The Revolutions of 1989
    • Public Against Violence: From the Telephones to the Streets
    • Church and Revolution
    • Leipzig: An Epicenter of the East German Revolution
    • Summary
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Back cover

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