Losing heaven : religion in Germany since 1945 / Thomas Großbölting ; translated by Alex Skinner.

Author
Grossbölting, Thomas, 1969- [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Εdition
English-language edition.
Published/​Created
New York : Berghahn, [2017]
Description
viii, 347 pages ; 24 cm

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    "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
    Notes
    "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.
    ISBN
    • 9781785332784 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
    • 1785332783 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2016024946
    OCLC
    965483377
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