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- Title
Dialogue as a Strategy of Struggle: Religious Politics in East Germany, 1957–1968.
- Authors
Tóth, Heléna
- Abstract
This article argues that the topos of dialogue between Christians and Marxists fulfilled a key role in the creation and maintenance of power relations in religious politics in East Germany. Three case studies illustrate the topos of dialogue as a strategy of struggle: 1. the campaign against 'revisionism' and 'politicised religion'; 2. the church policy strategy of 'differentiation'; 3. the critique of the phenomena commonly associated with the Christian–Marxist dialogue outside East Germany in the mid-1960s. These instances of socialist religious politics, while having their own dynamics, were closely related through specific actors and argumentative strategies.
- Subjects
CHRISTIANS; MARXIST philosophy; RELIGIONS; REVISIONISM (Christian theology); DOCTRINAL theology
- Publication
Contemporary European History, 2020, Vol 29, Issue 2, p171
- ISSN
0960-7773
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0960777320000065