Spying in God's House: The Nazi Secret Police and Sermons of Opposition

This article examines the reports of the Gestapo and SD regarding pastors' criticisms of the Nazi state and its ideology from the authority of the pulpit. My research reveals a degree of public opposition to the regime within the walls of the German churches, especially in terms of Nazi racial...

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Main Author: Skiles, William 1976- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2018]
In: Church history and religious culture
Year: 2018, Volume: 98, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 425-447
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Germany / Pastor / Sermon / Deutsches Reich, Geheime Staatspolizei / Deutsches Reich, Sicherheitsdienst / Surveillance (motif) / History 1933-1945
IxTheo Classification:CG Christianity and Politics
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KBB German language area
RB Church office; congregation
RE Homiletics
SA Church law; state-church law
Further subjects:B Confessing Church
B history of preaching
B Nazi Germany
B history of Christianity
B German churches
B Gestapo
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