Integrating Religion into the Historical Mainstream

Recent Literature on Religion in the Federal Republic of Germany

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9642467
AutoresMark Edward Ruff (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels, autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Volumen42
Número2
Páginas307-337
Fecha de publicación2009-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCentral European History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0008-9389 • E-ISSN: 1569-1616
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0008938909000326
OpenAlexW2016668540
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas23

Those discovering the growing number of writings on the religious history of the Federal Republic of Germany might be forgiven for thinking that they had entered a parallel universe. To use the terminology popularized by M. Rainer Lepsius, Christian milieus have largely disintegrated and their members been integrated into the mainstream of political and economic life. Yet until recently, research on German Catholicism and Protestantism has remained confined to confessional ghettos that many members of these religious subcultures once sought to escape. The dozens of monographs that have appeared in the last five years have yet to be incorporated into the central narratives that dominate the secular histories of the postwar era. Many have still to be reviewed in non-religious journals. Edited volumes that purport to analyze the many facets of the Federal Republic include few if any chapters on religion

Art · Confessional · Federal republic · German · Literature · Mainstream · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Protestantism · Sociology · Terminology · The Republic · Theology · European history and politics · European Political History Analysis · History · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Theology, History, Judaism, Christianity · Religious studies