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Encounters with modernity : the Catholic Church in West Germany, 1945-1975 /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ziemann, Benjamin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2014.
Colección:Studies in German history ; Volume 7.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Counting piety: Church statistics and its uses
  • In search of social reality: sociography
  • Representation and contestation after the Council: opinion polling
  • Planning the future of the Church: organizations research
  • Psychology and group dynamics as "humane" scientific approaches
  • Conclusion. The scientization of the Church as an encounter with a dangerous modernity.