| Description |
1 online resource (356 pages) |
| Contents |
Half-title; Title; Imprint; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1: A Christian Germany?; Chapter 1: Faith in People's Lives -- Lives Lived in Faith; Chapter 2: Organize, Standardize, Romanticize; Chapter 3: Proclamation of Faith and Pastoral Work from 1945 to the Early 1960s; Part 2: The New Dawn and the Plunge into Postmodernity; Chapter 4: The Christian Religious Communities in the 1960s and 1970s; Chapter 5: Politicization and Pluralization; Chapter 6: From 'Hellfire' to 'All-Embracing Love'; Part 3: Church becomes Religion; Chapter 7: Faith within Life |
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Chapter 8: On the Way to a Multireligious Society?Chapter 9: Towards a De-Christianized Society?; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
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 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY / Europe / Germany.
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Religion
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| SUBJECT |
Germany -- Religion -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054648
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| Subject |
Germany
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781785332791 |
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1785332791 |
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