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The study of religion in the international arena has exponentially increased in the course of the past decade to the point of establishing its own subgenre, not least in the study of the Cold War. Saki Dockrill’s role in the latter process was key. She accepted an edited book on Religion and the Cold War for her Palgrave Macmillan series long before scholarly recognition had been accorded to the subject. A decade later, a book of the same name noted that it was built on the foundation established by the original book.1 This chapter is a token of gratitude for Saki’s commitment to what was at the time a pioneering work.
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Dianne Kirby, (ed.), Religion and the Cold War (Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2003);
Philip E. Muehlenbeck, (ed.), Religion and the Cold War: A Global Perspective (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2012), vii.
The most recent example is Andrew Preston, Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy (New York: Knopf, 2012).
Elizabeth Spalding, The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006), p. 9.
William Inboden, Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945–1960 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp. 4–5
Conrad Cherry (ed.), God’s New Israel: Religious Interpretations of American Destiny, (Chapel Hill: North Carolina University Press, 1998);
William Van Den Bercken, ‘Holy Russia and the Soviet Fatherland’, Religion in Communist Lands, 15/3 (1987), pp. 264–277;
S.M. Miner, Stalin’s Holy War: Religion, Nationalism, and Alliance Politics, 1941–1945 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003).
Dianne Kirby, ‘Anglican-Orthodox Relations and the Religious Rehabilitation of the Soviet Regime during the Second World War’, Revue d’Histoire Ecclesiastique, 96/1–2 (2001), pp. 101–123.
Ian McLaine, Ministry of Morale: Home Front Morale and the Ministry of Information in World War II (London: Allen and Unwin, 1979).
Ralph Carter Elwood, (ed.), Resolutions and Decisions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Volume I: The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party 1898–October 1917 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974), pp. 42–3.
N.I. Bukharin and E.O. Preobrazhensky, The ABC of Communism, (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969), pp. 299–301.
A. Manhattan, Vatican Imperialism in the Twentieth Century (Michigan: Zondervan Publishers, 1965).
P. Steeves, Keeping the Faiths: Religion and Ideology in the Soviet Union (New Jersey: Holmes and Meier, 1989), pp. 85–86.
Arto Luukkanen, Party of Unbelief: the Religious Policy of the Bolshevik Party, 1917–1929 (Helsinki: Studia Historica, 1994).
Daniel Peris, Storming the Heavens: The Soviet League of the Militant Godless (New York: Cornell University Press, 1998).
Dimitry Pospielovsky, ‘The “Best Years” of Stalin’s Church Policy (1942–1948) in the Light of Archival Documents’, Religion, State and Society, 23/2 (1997), pp. 139–162.
Isaac Deutscher, Stalin (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972), pp. 506–7.
On individual churches in the Soviet bloc, see Peter Kent, The Lonely Cold War of Pope Pius XII (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002).
Dianne Kirby, ‘Truman’s Holy Alliance: The President, the Pope and the Origins of the Cold War’, Borderlines: Studies in American Culture, 4/1 (1997), pp. 1–17.
Dianne Kirby, Church, State and Propaganda (Hull: Hull University Press 1999), pp. 127–137.
Dianne Kirby, ‘Bishop George Bell and the Cold War’, Contemporary Church History, 21/2 (2008), pp. 349–372.
Anne Deighton, The Impossible Peace: Britain, the Division of Germany, and the Origins of the Cold War, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990), p. 6–7.
Demetrios Tsakonas, A Man Sent by God: the Life of Patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople (Brookline: Holy Cross Press, 1977).
Dennis Dunn, (ed.), Religion and Nationalism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union (Boulder: Lynne Reinner, 1987).
See also Dianne Kirby, ‘The Church of England in the Period of the Cold War, 1945–56’, PhD, Hull University, 1991.
Walter Russell Mead, Special Providence: American foreign policy and how it changed the world (New York: Routledge, 2002).
Sean Greenwood, Britain and the Cold War 1945–91 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000), pp. 139, 194.
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Kirby, D. (2013). Britain and the Origins of the Religious Cold War, 1944–47. In: Young, J.W., Pedaliu, E.G.H., Kandiah, M.D. (eds) Britain in Global Politics Volume 2. Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137313584_1
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