Losing Heaven
eBook - PDF

Losing Heaven

Religion in Germany since 1945

  1. 356 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Losing Heaven

Religion in Germany since 1945

About this book

As the birthplace of the Reformation, Germany has been the site of some of the most significant moments in the history of European Christianity. Today, however, its religious landscape is one that would scarcely be recognizable to earlier generations. This groundbreaking survey of German postwar religious life depicts a profoundly changed society: congregations shrink, private piety is on the wane, and public life has almost entirely shed its Christian character, yet there remains a booming market for syncretistic and individualistic forms of "popular religion." Losing Heaven insightfully recounts these dramatic shifts and explains their consequences for German religious communities and the polity as a whole.

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Information

Year
2016
eBook ISBN
9781785332791
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Half-title
  2. Title
  3. Imprint
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Introduction
  7. Part 1: A Christian Germany?
  8. Chapter 1: Faith in People’s Lives - Lives Lived in Faith
  9. Chapter 2: Organize, Standardize, Romanticize
  10. Chapter 3: Proclamation of Faith and Pastoral Work from 1945 to the Early 1960s
  11. Part 2: The New Dawn and the Plunge into Postmodernity
  12. Chapter 4: The Christian Religious Communities in the 1960s and 1970s
  13. Chapter 5: Politicization and Pluralization
  14. Chapter 6: From ‘Hellfire’ to ‘All-Embracing Love’
  15. Part 3: Church becomes Religion
  16. Chapter 7: Faith within Life
  17. Chapter 8: On the Way to a Multireligious Society?
  18. Chapter 9: Towards a De-Christianized Society?
  19. Conclusion
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index