Encounters with Modernity : The Catholic Church in West Germany, 1945-1975 /
Ziemann, Benjamin
Encounters with Modernity : The Catholic Church in West Germany, 1945-1975 / Benjamin Ziemann. - 1 online resource (334 p.) - Studies in German History ; 17 .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Counting Piety: Church Statistics and Its Uses -- 2. In Search of Social Reality: Sociography -- 3. Representation and Contestation after the Council: Opinion Polling -- 4. Planning the Future of the Church: Organizational Research -- 5. “Humane” Scientific Approaches: Psychology and Group Dynamics -- Conclusion The Scientization of the Church as an Encounter with a Dangerous Modernity -- Bibliography -- Index
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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 analysis of the intersections between organized religion and applied social sciences, this award-winning book offers fascinating insights into the trajectory of the Catholic Church in postwar Germany.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781782383444 9781782383451
10.1515/9781782383451 doi
Christianity and the social sciences--Germany.
Church and social problems--Catholic Church.--Germany
HISTORY / Europe / Germany.
History: 20th Century to Present.
261.8/30943
Encounters with Modernity : The Catholic Church in West Germany, 1945-1975 / Benjamin Ziemann. - 1 online resource (334 p.) - Studies in German History ; 17 .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Counting Piety: Church Statistics and Its Uses -- 2. In Search of Social Reality: Sociography -- 3. Representation and Contestation after the Council: Opinion Polling -- 4. Planning the Future of the Church: Organizational Research -- 5. “Humane” Scientific Approaches: Psychology and Group Dynamics -- Conclusion The Scientization of the Church as an Encounter with a Dangerous Modernity -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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 analysis of the intersections between organized religion and applied social sciences, this award-winning book offers fascinating insights into the trajectory of the Catholic Church in postwar Germany.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781782383444 9781782383451
10.1515/9781782383451 doi
Christianity and the social sciences--Germany.
Church and social problems--Catholic Church.--Germany
HISTORY / Europe / Germany.
History: 20th Century to Present.
261.8/30943