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''Conservative revolutionaries'' : the Protestant and Catholic churches in Germany after radical political change in the 1990s /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2004.
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| Colección: | Monographs in German history ;
v. 14. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 institutional consolidation and undertake an active role in the public realm of the new eastern German states in the 1990s. Yet critical voices were heard over the West German system of church-state relations and the public role it confers on religious organizations, and critics often expressed the id. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (196 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-182) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781782387947 1782387943 |