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Religion and the Secular in Eastern Germany, 1945 to the Present
Esther PeperkampMałgorzata Rajtar
出版BRILL, 2010
主題Religion / GeneralHistory / Europe / General
ISBN97890041846719004184678
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Rj5sA2VET80C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The radical process of religious change in eastern Germany poses a real challenge to social researchers. Common explanations view either the socialist past or larger scale processes of modernization to be the cause of eastern German secularization, but fail to address historical contingencies and individual agency. This book focuses on the interplay between local bureaucracies and individual lives. Contextualizing individual choices is essential in order to gain insight into how religious meaning is produced, reproduced, contested, discontinued, and disrupted. Bringing together the disciplines of anthropology, history, political science, and sociology, what unites the articles is their qualitative approach. The collection of articles lays out an impressive mosaic of the religious and the secular in the GDR and contemporary eastern Germany. Contributors are Irene Becci, Anja Frank, Uta Karstein, Anna K rs, Esther Peperkamp, Ma gorzata Rajtar, Thomas Schmidt-Lux, Nikolai Vukov, Kirstin Wappler, and Monika Wohlrab-Sahr.