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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: New York : Berghahn, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Edition: English-language editionDescription: 1 online resource (viii, 347 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781785332791
  • 1785332791
Uniform titles:
  • Verlorene Himmel. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Losing heaven.DDC classification:
  • 200.943/09045 23
LOC classification:
  • BR856.3 .G76813 2017eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • 200 | 943
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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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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)1218359

"Originally published in 2013 as Der verlorene Himmel. Glaube in Deutschland seit 1945 by Vandenhoeck & Reprecht GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-336) and index.

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.

Translated from the German.

Print version record.