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

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 ins...

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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2004]
©2004
Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
Series:Monographs in German History ; 14
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Physical Description:1 online resource (200 p.)
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Table of 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