RELIGION AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION: GERMANY'S DEMOCRATIZATION AFTER 1945 - THE AMERICAN RE-EDUCATION PROGRAMME

  • Heike Springhart Institute of Systematic Theology and Dogmatics University of Heidelberg
Keywords: National Socialism, Re-Education, Social Transformation, Public Theology, Democracy

Abstract

Totalitarian political regimes in Germany and South Africa had a severely negative impact on the equal and shared human dignity of inhabitants of these countries - both on institutional and personal level. In this article the role of religion in contributing to the institutionalizing of the equal and extensive dignity of all is considered. The American reeducation programme after 1945 functions as a case study and provides perspectives for the continued role of religion in democracies.

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Published
2013-06-12
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