RELIGION AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION: GERMANY'S DEMOCRATIZATION AFTER 1945 - THE AMERICAN RE-EDUCATION PROGRAMME
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.Authors retain copyright and grant the Journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this Journal.
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