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Losing heaven : religion in Germany since 1945 / Thomas Großbölting ; translated by Alex Skinner.
Author
Grossbölting, Thomas, 1969-
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Verlorene Himmel.
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English
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English-language edition.
Published/Created
New York : Berghahn, [2017]
Description
viii, 347 pages ; 24 cm
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BR856.3 .G76813 2017
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Church history
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Religion
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Summary note
"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."--Amazon.com
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"Originally published in 2013 as Der verlorene Himmel. Glaube in Deutschland seit 1945 by Vandenhoeck & Reprecht GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen"--Title page verso.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-336) and index.
Language note
Translated from the German.
Contents
Part 1. A Christian Germany?: religious self-positioning and illusions after 1945. Faith in people's lives, lives lived in faith?: the religious field between re-Christianization and erosion
Organize, standardize, romanticize: the churches in politics and society
Proclamation of faith and pastoral work from 1945 to the early 1960s
Part 2. The new dawn and the plunge into postmodernity: the religious field in the 1960s and 1970s. The Christian religious communities in the 1960s and 1970s
Politicization and pluralization: religion, politics and society in the 1960s and 1970s
From 'hellfire' to 'all-embracing love': transformation in the social forms of religion and in the meaning of transcendence
Part 3. Church becomes religion: ruptures and changes in the religious sphere to the present day. Faith within life: the diffusion and differentiation of the religious field
On the way to a multireligious society?: pluralism as challenge
Towards a de-Christianized society?
Conclusion: God in Germany: looking back and looking forward.
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ISBN
9781785332784 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
1785332783 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2016024946
OCLC
965483377
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