Theological and religio-sociological implications in Protestant GDR Historiography: G. Besier, K. Nowak, E. Neubert and D. Pollack

新教民主德国史学中的神学和宗教社会学含义：G.贝西尔、K.诺瓦克、E.纽伯特和D.波拉克该研究项目旨在分析新教民主德国史学中的神学和宗教社会学含义。它有助于当前对1989/1990年以来的东德史学和纪念文化的考察，阐述了规范性标准的历史政治和话语起源的问题。Gerhard Besier, Kurt Nowak， Ehrhart Neubert和Detlef Pollack的400多份出版物代表了最重要的参考来源。这四位作者通过他们在这一研究领域的持续活动和不同的学术概念，塑造了关于东德教会和基督教的话语。该研究项目的一个出发点是观察到关于民主德国教会的辩论是由神学和宗教社会学假设决定的。这些假设源于学术上关于第三帝国时期教会与国家之间的斗争及其神学基础的辩论，关于巴特和邦霍费尔的基督教概念，以及20世纪80年代各种宗教社会学途径。在此基础上，本项目旨在指出史学模式与规范神学判断之间的联系。历史地和系统地，它将导致对由不同意图塑造的当代史部分的分析的回顾。这种历史分析是典型的关于新教的身份在教会和伦理之间的斗争。该研究项目是基于这样的假设：学术分析总是由预先预期的意识所引导。因此，理论概念的产生和修正总是依赖于不断变化的社会环境。重点是关于新教和和平革命，教会和特勤局，以及教会和社会主义的论述。对主人公贝西尔、波拉克和纽伯特的采访将补充对书面资料的分析。

Theological and religio-sociological implications in Protestant GDR Historiography: G. Besier, K. Nowak, E. Neubert and D. PollackThe research project aims at analyzing theological and religio-sociological implications in Protestant GDR historiography. It contributes to a current examination of GDR-historiography and commemorative culture since 1989/1990 that expounds the problems of a historic-political and discursive genesis of normative standards. More than 400 publications by Gerhard Besier, Kurt Nowak, Ehrhart Neubert and Detlef Pollack represent the most important source of reference. These four authors have shaped the discourse about East German Church and Christianity through their continuous activity and different scholarly conceptions within this field of study. An initial point of the research project is the observation that debates about Church in the GDR have been determined by theological and religio-sociological assumptions. Those assumptions originate from scholarly debates about the struggle between Church and State during the Third Reich and its theological basis, Christianity concepts in regard to Barth and Bonhoeffer, and various religio-sociological accesses of the 1980s. Starting from there, the project aims at pointing out the link between patterns of historiography and normative theological judgment. Historically and systematically, it will lead to a review of the analysis of a segment of contemporary history that has been shaped by different intentions. This historical analysis is paradigmatic as regards the struggle for Protestant identity between ecclesiology and ethics. The research project is based on the assumption that scholarly analysis is always led by a pre-intended awareness. Therefore, the emergence and modification of theoretical concepts always depend on social settings that constantly change. Key focus is the discourse about Protestantism and the Peaceful Revolution, Church and secret service, as well as Church and socialism. Interviews with the protagonists Besier, Pollack and Neubert will complement the analysis of written sources.