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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 i

Title Encounters with modernity : the Catholic Church in West Germany, 1945-1975 / Benjamin Ziemann
translated from German by Andrew Evans.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher New York : Berghahn
Creation Date 2014
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content TOC
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Series Studies in German History
Volume 17
Extent 1 online resource (334 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2014
National Library system number 997010711324405171
MARC RECORDS
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