Religion and the Cold War: A Global Perspective

Table of Contents

Contents Preface vii Introduction: The Religious Cold War xi Andrew Preston 1  An Early Attempt to Rip the Iron Curtain: The Pomak Question, 1945–1947 1 Argyris Mamarelis 2  The Western Allies, German Churches, and the Emerging Cold War in Germany, 1948–1952 18 JonDavid K. Wyneken 3  From Sermon to Strategy: Religious Influence on the Formation and Implementation of US Foreign Policy in the Early Cold War 44 Jonathan P. Herzog 4 Hewlett Johnson: Britain’s Red Dean and the Cold War 65 David Ayers 5  Rising to the Occasion: The Role of American Missionaries and Korean Pastors in Resisting Communism throughout the Korean War 88 Kai Yin Allison Haga 6  The Campaign of Truth Program: US Propaganda in Iraq during the Early 1950s 113 Ahmed Khalid al-Rawi 7 Religion and Cold War Politics in Ethiopia 139 Wudu Tafete Kassu vi | Religion and the Cold War: A Global Perspective 8  Soviet Policies toward Islam: Domestic and International Considerations 158 Eren Murat Tasar 9  Bosnian Muslims during the Cold War: Their Identity between Domestic and Foreign Policies 182 Aydın Babuna 10  Religion, Power, and Legitimacy in Ngo Dinh Diem’s Republic of Vietnam 206 Jessica M. Chapman 11 Brazil: Nation and Churches during the Cold War 229 Iain S. Maclean 12  Service with Body and Soul: The Institutionalized Atheism of the Security Service Officers in Communist Poland, 1944–1989 247 Leszek Murat 13  Political Islam, the Jamaat-e-Islami, and Pakistan’s Role in the Afghan-Soviet War, 1979–1988 275 Zahid Shahab Ahmed Contributors 297 Index 301 ...