Conference: Being Protestant - Staying Protestant?
Christians in East and West Germany in the 1980s
What did it mean to be Protestant in a time of uncertainty and crisis? The conference focuses on the development of Protestantism in both German states in the last decade of division and interprets it as a prehistory of the common present and its differences.
How did religious beliefs and practices change in the 1980s? How did change and continuity intertwine in the church, Christian organizations and initiatives? What activities and positioning took place in the social sphere? What civil society networks came into being and what effects did they have?