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049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aEnns, James, _d1959-, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aSaving Germany : _bNorth American Protestants and Christian mission to West Germany, 1945 1974 / _cJames C. Enns.
263			_a1704
264		1	_aMontreal ; _aKingston ; _aLondon ; _aChicago : _bMcGill-Queen's University Press, _c2017.
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aMcGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two ; _v77
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"This book explores the efforts of North American Protestant missionaries to rebuild and evangelize postwar Germany. The combination of Germany's failed experiment with National Socialism, its devastation from Allied bombs, and its early postwar reception of displaced people and refugees from Eastern Europe transformed the image of Germany in the minds of North American Protestants. In the US, effective lobbying by the Federal Council of Churches helped soften the administration's initial imposition of a harsh peace on Germany thus allowing voluntary aid from North American churches to flow into the country. This set the stage for a concerted missionary response from mission agencies which lasted through the Cold War period. Enns tracks this transnational Christian engagement in Germany from 1945 until the mid-1970s. He argues that North American Protestants (Canadians and Americans) engaged in two different kinds of mission work, and can be organized into three groups. Those from mainline Protestant denominations comfortable within the emerging ecumenical movement tended to see Nazism as an aberration in German history and understood their chief aim as the reconstruction of Germany and its churches. This included not only physical reconstruction but also the international rehabilitation of German Protestant leaders and the promotion of democracy within church institutions. Those from conservative evangelical traditions tended to see Germany as a post-Christian nation in need of reconversion and understood their chief aim as evangelization; this included the organization of mass evangelistic revivals, the production of Christian print material and radio programming, and the training of Christian preachers, teachers, and leaders. A third group--denominational missionaries from Mennonite, Baptist, Salvation Army, and Quaker traditions--engaged in both relief and evangelistic work. Enn selects a small number of mission organizations from each of these three groups to serve as case studies, which form the basis of the main chapters. The study pursues several ideas and lines of argument: the shift in North American Protestant missionary self-understanding from evangelization to assistance towards self-help, as well as the growing rift within the missions; the important ideological support North American missionaries gave to US foreign policy goals of the promotion of democracy and opposition to communism; the impact of North American missionary work on Protestant churches in West Germany; developments in 'world Christianity,' as Europe became identified as a post-Christian mission field; the significance of religious actors and the religious sphere in the cultural history of 'Americanization'".-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aProtestant churches _xMissions _zGermany (West) _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aProtestants _zGermany (West) _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aEvangelicalism _zGermany (West) _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aMissions, Canadian _zGermany (West) _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aMissions, American _zGermany (West) _xHistory _y20th century.
650		7	_aEvangelicalism. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00917002
650		7	_aMissions, American. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01023860
650		7	_aMissions, Canadian. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01023876
650		7	_aProtestant churches _xMissions. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01079897
650		7	_aProtestants. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01079934
651		7	_aGermany (West) _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01210273
650		7	_aHISTORY / Europe / General _2bisacsh
648		7	_a1900-1999 _2fast
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411628
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tSaving Germany. _kMcGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two _kMcGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two ; _w(CaOONL)2016906400X
830		0	_aMcGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. _nSeries two ; _v77.
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