Philip E. Muehlenbeck, a professorial lecturer in history at George Washington University, is the author of Betting on the Africans: John F. Kennedy's Courting of African Nationalist Leaders, and editor of Race, Ethnicity, and the Cold War: A Global Perspective.
"...Religion and the Cold War is an essential contribution to
religious history, history of the Cold War, and twentieth-century
international history."
--H-Net Reviews
"Religion and the Cold War is a crucial reminder that religion
shaped the international context of the Cold War for both the
United States and the Soviet Union in the decades following World
War II. A much-needed collection of essays, this volume
demonstrates that nations who resisted the two superpowers often
did so through religious organizations and religious visions of
their own national communities."
--David Zietsma, Redeemer University College
"Religion and the Cold War is an admirable collection"
--Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"I highly recommend this book."
--Journal of Church and State
"This is an ambitious and stimulating volume that reflects two of
the most important trends in the recent study of the Cold War: the
role of religion in its development, and its global nature.
Bible-bearing balloons launched into the German wind, the
surprising relationship between the Soviet state and its four
Central Asian muftiates, tensions between South Vietnam's Catholic
leadership and the majority Buddhist opposition--these episodes,
and many more, add an exciting and essential new dimension to the
history of this vital era."
--Andrew J. Rotter, Colgate University, author of Hiroshima: The
World's Bomb
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