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The 'Conservative Revolutionaries' : The Protestant and Catholic Churches in Germany after Radical Political Change in the 1990s / Barbara Theriault.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Monographs in German History ; 14Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781571816672
  • 9781782387947
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 274.3/0829
LOC classification:
  • BR856.3 .T44 2004eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The Genesis of Church Models -- Chapter 1. Church models as Guiding metaphors and Organizing Principles -- Chapter 2. The Catholic and Protestant Guiding Metaphors in the GDR -- Part II: The Transformation of Church Models -- Chapter 3. The “Politics of Institutionalization”: An Analytical Introduction -- Chapter 4. The Pastoral Care of Soldiers and Conscripts: A Paradigmatic Debate -- Chapter 5. Religious Instruction: Living in a Secular World -- Chapter 6. Social Welfare Provisions: At the Institutional Periphery -- Conclusion -- Appendixes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: During the forty years of division, the Protestant and Catholic churches in Germany were the only organizations to retain strong ties and organizational structures: they embodied continuity in a country marked by discontinuity. As such, the churches were both expected to undergo smooth and rapid institutional consolidation and undertake an active role in the public realm of the new eastern German states in the 1990s. Yet critical voices were heard over the West German system of church-state relations and the public role it confers on religious organizations, and critics often expressed the idea that despite all their difficulties, something precious was lost in the collapse of the German democratic republic. Against this backdrop, the author delineates the conflicting conceptions of the Protestant and Catholic churches' public role and pays special attention to the East German model, or what is generally termed the "positive experiences of the GDR and the Wende."
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The Genesis of Church Models -- Chapter 1. Church models as Guiding metaphors and Organizing Principles -- Chapter 2. The Catholic and Protestant Guiding Metaphors in the GDR -- Part II: The Transformation of Church Models -- Chapter 3. The “Politics of Institutionalization”: An Analytical Introduction -- Chapter 4. The Pastoral Care of Soldiers and Conscripts: A Paradigmatic Debate -- Chapter 5. Religious Instruction: Living in a Secular World -- Chapter 6. Social Welfare Provisions: At the Institutional Periphery -- Conclusion -- Appendixes -- Bibliography -- Index

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During the forty years of division, the Protestant and Catholic churches in Germany were the only organizations to retain strong ties and organizational structures: they embodied continuity in a country marked by discontinuity. As such, the churches were both expected to undergo smooth and rapid institutional consolidation and undertake an active role in the public realm of the new eastern German states in the 1990s. Yet critical voices were heard over the West German system of church-state relations and the public role it confers on religious organizations, and critics often expressed the idea that despite all their difficulties, something precious was lost in the collapse of the German democratic republic. Against this backdrop, the author delineates the conflicting conceptions of the Protestant and Catholic churches' public role and pays special attention to the East German model, or what is generally termed the "positive experiences of the GDR and the Wende."

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In English.

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