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Encounters with Modernity: The Catholic Church in West Germany, 1945-1975 (Studies in German History, 17)
Author: Benjamin Ziemann
Year: January 1, 2014
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.7 MB
Language: English

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 its analysis of the intersections between organized religion and applied social sciences, this book offers insights into the trajectory of the Catholic Church in postwar Germany

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