BOOKS - Losing Heaven: Religion in Germany Since 1945
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Losing Heaven: Religion in Germany Since 1945
Author: Thomas Grossbolting
Year: October 1, 2016
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 828 KB
Language: English
Year: October 1, 2016
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 828 KB
Language: English
As 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 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 and "popular religion. and " Losing Heaven insightfully recounts these dramatic shifts and explains their consequences for German religious communities and the polity as a whole.