Encounters with Modernity : : The Catholic Church in West Germany, 1945-1975 / / Benjamin Ziemann.
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 introd...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Studies in German History ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (334 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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