Encounters with modernity
Subtitle: the Catholic Church in West Germany, 1945-1975
By: Benjamin Ziemann ; translated from German by Andrew Evans
Series: Studies in German history -- volume 17
Publisher: Berghahn
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781782383444; 9781782383451
Subjects: Church and social problems; Catholic Church; Christianity and the social sciences
Work titles: Katholische Kirche und Sozialwissenschaften 1945-1975
Notes: "Originally published as Katholische Kirche und Sozialwissenschaften 1945-1975."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-313) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Counting piety: Church statistics and its uses; title: In search of social reality: sociography; title: Representation and contestation after the Council: opinion polling; title: Planning the future of the Church: organizations research; title: Psychology and group dynamics as "humane" scientific approaches; title: Conclusion. The scientization of the Church as an encounter with a dangerous modernity.