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Religion and the Secular in Eastern Germany, 1945 to the Present

by Thomas Schmidt-Lux , Nikolai Vukov , Kirstin Wappler
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9789004184671
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publisher Imprint: Brill
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  • Pages: 224
  • Original Price: GBP 146.4
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 499 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Europe / General

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 Körs, Esther Peperkamp, Malgorzata Rajtar, Thomas Schmidt-Lux, Nikolai Vukov, Kirstin Wappler, and Monika Wohlrab-Sahr.

Esther Peperkamp, Ph. D. (2006) in Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, is lecturer in anthropology at Breda International University of Applied Sciences. She has published on religion in Poland and Eastern Germany, and is currently engaged in the anthropology of leisure.

Malgorzata Rajtar, Ph.D. (2006) in Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, is Associate Member of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany. She has published on morality and religion in Poland and eastern Germany.

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