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Author International Society for the Sociology of Religion. Conference (2007 : Leipzig, Germany)

Title Religion and the secular in Eastern Germany, 1945 to the present / edited by Esther Peperkamp, Malgorzata Rajtar
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (x, 224 pages) : map
Series Studies in Central European histories ; v. 51
Studies in Central European histories ; v. 51.
Contents Cover13; -- Copyright13; -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Map of eastern Germany -- Introduction -- 1. Science as Religion: The Role of Scientism in the Secularization Process in Eastern Germany -- 2. Secular Rituals and Political Commemorations in Eastern Germany, 1945-1956 -- 3. The Limits of Politicization of the Schools in the SED State: The Catholic Eichsfeld Region and the Protestant Erzgebirge 8211; A Comparison -- 4. Positions and Pathways of Families within the Religious Field of East Germany: Three Catholic Case Studies -- 5. Between Menschlichkeit and Missionsbefehl: God, Work, and World among Christians in Saxony -- 6. Religious Socialization in a Secular Environment: Jehovahs Witnesses in Eastern Germany -- 7. Young Eastern Germans and the Religious and Ideological Heritage of their Parents and Grandparents -- 8. The Rehabilitation of Ex-Offenders in Eastern Germany: A Religious-Secular Configuration -- 9. Church Buildings in Eastern Germany: Houses of God or Tourist Attractions? -- Conclusion: Dealing with Two Masters Commands 8211; Explorations of the Complexities of Religious Life under a Dictatorial Regime -- Index
Summary The most common explanations view either the socialist past or larger scale processes of modernization to be the cause of eastern German secularization. The volume attempts to discover historically variable reconfigurations of religion and the secular at the local level
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Secularization -- Germany (East) -- Congresses
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology of Religion.
Religion
Secularization
SUBJECT Germany (East) -- Church history -- 20th century -- Congresses
Germany (East) -- Church history -- 21st century -- Congresses
Germany (East) -- Religion -- Congresses
Subject Germany (East)
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Church history
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Peperkamp, Esther.
Rajtar, Małgorzata.
ISBN 9789004190528
900419052X
9789004184671
9004184678
1282787020
9781282787025