Mormons as citizens of a communist state
Subtitle: a documentary history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in East Germany, 1945-1990
By: Raymond Kuehne.
Contributors: Kuehne, Raymond M.
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Salt Lake City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9780874809930
Subjects: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Germany (East) -- History; Germany (East) -- Church history
Work titles: Mormonen und Staatsbürger. English.
Description: From 1945 to 1990, communist East Germany existed as an officially atheistic state. Mormons as Citizens of a Communist State is 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 the country during that time.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Germany before 1945; title: Soviet military administration, 19451949; title: The church-state relationship in the GDR; title: The legal status of the LDS church; title: Life prior to the Berlin wall, 1949-1961; title: Living with the wall, 1961-1989; title: How Mormons defined citizenship; title: Missionary opportunities; title: Church youth programs; title: Education and employment; title: The old meeting houses; title: Importing church literature; title: Financial administration; title: Improved relations in the 1970s and 1980s; title: The origins of the Freiberg Temple; title: New meeting houses in the 1980s; title: The Honecker-Monson meeting, 1988; title: Missionaries enter the GDR, 1989; title: The wendeend of the GDR, 1990; title: President Henry Burkhardt.