Encounters with modernity : the Catholic Church in West Germany, 1945-1975 / / Benjamin Ziemann ; translated from German by Andrew Evans
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Ziemann Benjamin
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| Titolo: |
Encounters with modernity : the Catholic Church in West Germany, 1945-1975 / / Benjamin Ziemann ; translated from German by Andrew Evans
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Berghahn, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (334 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 261.8/30943 |
| Soggetto topico: | Church and social problems - Germany - Catholic Church |
| Christianity and the social sciences - Germany | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | EvansAndrew |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | TOC; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | During the three decades from 1945 to 1975, the Catholic Church in West Germany employed a broad range of methods from empirical social research. Statistics, opinion polling, and organizational sociology, as well as psychoanalysis and other approaches from the "psy sciences," were debated and introduced in pastoral care. In adopting these methods for their own work, bishops, parish clergy, and pastoral sociologists tried to open the church up to modernity in a rapidly changing society. In the process, they contributed to the reform agenda of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). Through i |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Encounters with modernity |
| ISBN: | 1-78238-345-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910821529503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Studies in German history ; ; Volume 7.