DIANNE KIRBY is a Lecturer of American Studies in the School of History and International Relations at the University of Ulster. Author of Church, State and Propaganda she has also published in a range of scholarly journals including Twentieth Century British History, Journal of Church and State, Electronic Journal of International Relations and European History Review. AE(00): Foreword by BRUCE KENT

'Dianne Kirby and her 12 contributors provide new insights and interpretations of the period from 1945 to around 1960.' - Theology 'Many of these eye-opening essays are based on State Department and Foreign Office archives and exude the silver tongue of diplomacy. It is refreshing to read the assessment by Ian Jones of grassroots attitudes to the Cold War culled from church newsletters in Birmingham.' - Stuart Mews, Theology

• Dedication Foreword; B.Kent Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Religion and the Cold War: An Introduction; D.Kirby Domestic and Foreign Policy Considerations and the Origins of Postwar Soviet Church-State Relations, 1941-46; A.Dickinson German Protestants Debate Politics and Theology after the Second World War; M.D.Hockenos Pope Pius XII and the Cold War: Confrontation between Catholicism and Communism; F.J.Coppa The Lonely Cold War of Pope Pius XII: P.C.Kent Harry Truman's Religious Legacy: The Holy Alliance, Containment and the Cold War; D.Kirby The Vatican, Italy and the Cold War; J.Pollard Pro Patria, Pro Deo : The United States and the Vatican in Cold War Yugoslavia, 1945-1950; C.R.Gallagher Cold War on High and Unity from Below: The French Communist Party and the Catholic Church in the Early Years of the Gaullist Fifth Republic; P.Hainsworth Entering the Age of Human Rights: Religion, Politics and Jurisprudence in Early Cold War Canada, 1945-1950; G.Egerton The Clergy, the Cold War and the Mission of the Local Church: England c.1945-60; I.Jones The Rehabilitation of Martin Luther in the GDR: or, Why Thomas Muntzer Failed to Stabilize the Moorings of Socialist Ideology; H.Lehmann Martyrs, Miracles and Martians: Religion and Cold War Cinema in the 1950s; T.Shaw