Render Unto Caesar: State, Identity, and Minority Churche...
Hall, Bruce W.
The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) existed for 41 years, from 1949-1990. During that time, four minority churches and their members (Methodists, Baptists, Seventh-Day Adventists, and Mormons), endured a religiously hostile environment, secularization pressures from an unfriendly regime, and pervasive direct and indirect surveillance from the East German Secret Police (Stasi). This situation made it difficult to live a religious life...