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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Studies in German History ; Volume 17
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Studies in German history ; Volume 7.
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| Summary |
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 introduced in pastoral care. In adopting these methods for their own work, bishops, parish clergy, and pastoral sociologists tried to open the church up to modernity in a rapidly changing society. In the process, they contributed to the reform agenda of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965). Through its. |
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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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Catholic Church -- Germany.
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Catholic Church. |
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Germany. |
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Church and social problems -- Catholic Church -- Germany.
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Church and social problems -- Catholic Church. |
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Christianity and the social sciences -- Germany.
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Christianity and the social sciences. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Print version: Ziemann, Benjamin. Encounters with Modernity. Berghahn Books 2014 9781782383444 |
| ISBN |
9781782383451 (electronic book) |
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178238345X (electronic book) |
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1306877881 (electronic book) |
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9781306877886 (electronic book) |
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9781782383444 |
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1782383441 |
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ebr10883297 |
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