Encounters with modernity :: the Catholic Church in West Germany, 1945-1975 /

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...

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1. Verfasser: Ziemann, Benjamin
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
German
Veröffentlicht: New York : Berghahn Books, 2014.
Schriftenreihe:Studies in German history ; Volume 7.
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Zusammenfassung: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
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Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781782383451
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