LEADER 03335nam 2200469 450 001 9910792728603321 005 20221205091804.0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781785332791 035 $a(CKB)3710000001123470 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4498477 035 $a(DE-B1597)636391 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781785332791 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001123470 100 $a20170407h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aLosing heaven $ereligion in Germany since 1945 /$fThomas Grossbolting ; translated by Alex Skinner 210 1$aNew York ;$aOxford, [England] :$cBerghahn Books,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (356 pages) 311 $a1-78533-278-3 311 $a1-78533-279-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgements --$tIntroduction: Losing Heaven --$tPART 1 A Christian Germany? Religious Self-positioning and Illusions after 1945 --$t1 Faith in People?s Lives ? Lives Lived in Faith? The Religious Field between Re-Christianization and Erosion --$t2 Organize, Standardize, Romanticize: The Churches in Politics and Society --$t3 Proclamation of Faith and Pastoral Work from 1945 to the Early 1960s --$tPART 2 The New Dawn and the Plunge into Postmodernity: The Religious Field in the 1960s and 1970s --$t4 The Christian Religious Communities in the 1960s and 1970s --$t5 Politicization and Pluralization: Religion, Politics and Society in the 1960s and 1970s --$t6 From ?Hellfire? to ?All-Embracing Love? Transformation in the Social Forms of Religion and in the Meaning of Transcendence --$tPART 3 Church becomes Religion: Ruptures and Changes in the Religious Sphere to the Present Day --$tIntroduction --$t7 Faith within Life: The Diffusion and Differentiation of the Religious Field --$t8 On the Way to a Multireligious Society? Pluralism as Challenge --$t9 Towards a De-Christianized Society? --$tConclusion: God in Germany ? Looking Back and Looking Forward --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aAs the birthplace of the Reformation, Germany has been the site of some of the most significant moments in the history of European Christianity. Today, however, its religious landscape is one that would scarcely be recognizable to earlier generations. This groundbreaking survey of German postwar religious life depicts a profoundly changed society: congregations shrink, private piety is on the wane, and public life has almost entirely shed its Christian character, yet there remains a booming market for syncretistic and individualistic forms of ?popular religion.? Losing Heaven insightfully recounts these dramatic shifts and explains their consequences for German religious communities and the polity as a whole. 606 $aHISTORY / Europe / Germany$2bisacsh 607 $aGermany$xChurch history 607 $aGermany$xReligion 615 7$aHISTORY / Europe / Germany. 676 $a200.943/09045 700 $aGrossbo?lting$b Thomas$f1969-$01531319 702 $aSkinner$b Alex 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792728603321 996 $aLosing heaven$93776891 997 $aUNINA