D Pollack
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4559 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | D Pollack |
| NOMBRES | D |
| APELLIDO | Pollack |
| FIRMA | POLLACK D |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Münster |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1806-745X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 77 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 272 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 75 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Resentment as an affective foundation of radicalization
Resentment refers to an affective state characterized by entrenched feelings of grievance. Negative social experiences, such as discrimination, are detached from their concrete contexts of origin and acquire a self-sustaining dynamic. This process gives rise to victimhood narratives that devalue attempts to improve one’s situation, inhibit critical self-reflection, and externalize guilt and responsibility onto powerful enemy images. The central h…
Die Geburt der westlichen Moderne aus dem Geist der Religion
The question of which chain of circumstances led to the development of Western modernity was once the central question in the social-historical work of Max Weber. In contrast to Weber, the article does not go back to the Protestant ethic to identify an important starting point for the emergence of Western modernity, but to the Gregorian reform in the High Middle Ages. The Roman Catholic Church's claims to supremacy over all areas of society have …
Religion und gesellschaftliche Differenzierung
In this historical analysis, Detlef Pollack investigates functional differentiations medieval predecessors, as well as the 18th centurys religious upheaval and 1960s religious crisis.
Antisemitism among Muslims in Germany before and after October 7, 2023
October 7, 2023 is regarded as the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Shoah and marks a historical turning point. Since then, the repercussions of this terrorist attack and the subsequent Hamas-Israel war have been intensely debated. Antisemitic and violence-glorifying incidents in certain Muslim-migrant milieus have triggered emotionally charged debates on so-called “Muslim antisemitism.” However, little is known so far about the broader impac…
Religionssoziologische Theorie auf dem Prüfstand
Religionssoziologische Theorie auf dem Prüfstand
Religious Fundamentalism
Muslims in Europe face reservations due to the association of Islam with fundamentalism and extremism. Our study aims to use a new concept of fundamentalism and new data to identify factors that correlate with fundamentalism, and to investigate how far these attitudes are associated with the acceptance of violence. Fundamentalism is defined as an attitude characterized by the claim to exclusive truth, to superiority over all other positions, to t…
Religiosity, Spirituality and Conspiracy Theories
To cope with the covid-19 pandemic, people not only relied on state measures and scientific knowledge, but also drew on the resources of religion. They may also have embraced conspiracy theories that sometimes led them to engage in protest behavior. Against this background, we address the following research question: "How are people's religiosity and spirituality related to their belief in covid-19 conspiracy theories in Germany?" We answer this …
Von Verteidigern und Entdeckern
Dieses Buch zeigt, dass der aktuelle Identitätskonflikt mit Gefühlen gesellschaftlicher Marginalisierung und politischer Repräsentation verbunden ist
Religiosität, gesellschaftliche Einstellungen und politische Orientierungen in Deutschland
Der Beitrag fragt danach, wie sich die religiöse Landschaft in Deutschland heute gestaltet und in welcher Beziehung sie zu anderen Bereichen des gesellschaftlichen Zusammenlebens steht. Dabei richtet sich der Blick sowohl auf allgemeine und übergreifende Tendenzen und Muster als auch auf Aspekte, die unterschiedliche soziale Gruppen voneinander trennen. Nach einem kurzen geschichtlichen Abriss wird die aktuelle Situation und Entwicklung des relig…
Losing My Religion as a Natural Experiment
The sociological literature has produced a remarkably consistent picture of the quantitative patterns of religious disaffiliations in Western countries. This article argues, and demonstrates, that strong changes in a social context may lead individuals to disaffiliate rapidly, leading to very different aggregate effects from those in the 'western model.' We use the unique situation of the separation of Germany from 1949 to 1989 and its subsequent…
Fazit
Kapitel 1 — »Wir sind das Volk« Die Rolle der ostdeutschen Bevölkerung in der friedlichen Revolution
Einführung
Kapitel 2 — »Wir sind ein Volk« Die Ostdeutschen im Prozess der Wiedervereinigung
Kapitel 3 — »Wir war'n das Volk« Die schwierige Ankunft der Ostdeutschen in Deutschland
Das unzufriedene Volk
Religion und gesellschaftliche Differenzierung
Das Ziel des vorliegenden Aufsatzes besteht darin zu prüfen, inwieweit die soziologische Differenzierungstheorie das Potential besitzt, den Beitrag der Religion zur Herausbildung der europäischen Moderne verständlich zu machen. Um die Frage nach dem religiösen Einfluss auf die Entstehung der modernen Welt differenzierungstheoretisch behandeln zu können, ist es zunächst erforderlich, das gebrauchte theoretische Instrumentarium zu erläutern. Es mus…
Can the State Accelerate the Secular Transition? Secularization in East and West Germany as a Natural Experiment
Germany was a divided country from 1949 until 1989. During this period, West Germany remained a rather religious country, while East Germany became, under socialist rule, one of the most secular regions in the world. We use this case of socialist state intervention as a natural experiment to test Voas' model of secular transition, which states that all Western and Central European countries follow the same path and speed of secularization. We emp…
A Stronghold of Catholicism
Compared to other Western European countries, Italy stands out in its rather high level of religiosity. Weekly church attendance has consistently exceeded the one third mark; confidence in the church has increased slightly; belief in God has remained at a high level; and belief in life after death, and in heaven and hell, has increased. The chapter investigates why both church practice and people’s ties to their faith have remained more or less s…
Macro- and Microsociological Explanations for Differences between Countries
After the individual case studies presented in the previous chapters, the book now investigates whether the results of the individual case analyses can be generalized, which depends on whether they can also be confirmed against the background of a larger sample. A multilevel analysis involving a total of fifty-four countries was therefore carried out. Church attendance and belief in God, as well as indexes of individual and church religiosity, we…
Reflections on the Concept of Religion
There is no definition of religion that is universally valid and generally accepted in religious studies. Increasing numbers of scholars of religion see the attempt to define religion as doomed to failure, and therefore do not even try. A concept of religion is, however, indispensable for staking out the subject area which the sociology of religion and religious studies are concerned with. Defining clearly what is meant by religion is necessary n…
South Korea
In South Korea, the processes of rapid modernization after the Second World War were accompanied by an upturn in the religion that has suffered the heaviest losses in Europe: Protestant Christianity. The analysis shows that the rise of Protestantism in South Korea can be attributed to a number of factors. The provision of support networks of solidarity for individuals exposed to the rapid processes of modernization, industrialization, and urbaniz…
Patterns and Determinants of Religious Change in the Modern Period
Chapter 14 does not design a general theory of religious change, but develops a multiple theoretical perspective including various theoretical elements, which are instrumental for explaining religious changes and which can be combined flexibly. In brief, they are: 1. Functional differentiation as a rule stands in a strained relationship to the integrational capacity of religious communities and churches. If, however, religious identities are link…
Reflections on the Concept of Modernity
Part I contains theoretical reflections on the two central concepts of the book: modernity and religion. This chapter on the concept of modernity begins by addressing the main reservations that have been expressed concerning the classic approaches to this concept in sociology. After discussing objections to modernization theory, the chapter presents an outline of a theory of modernity that serves as the basis for the argumentation of the entire b…
Key Questions and Methodological Preliminaries
Chapter 3 outlines the key questions of the book and the methodology that the book uses to deal with these questions. The questions are as follows: 1. To what extent are functional differentiation and religion compatible? 2. How does vertical differentiation affect the religious landscape? 3. Does the increasing diversity of the religious have a positive or a negative effect on the vitality of religious communities, organizations and markets? Is …
Religious individualization or secularization? Testing hypotheses of religious change - the case of Eastern and Western Germany
The individualization thesis advanced by sociologists of religion such as Grace Davie, Danièle Hervieu-Léger, Michael Krüggeler, Thomas Luckmann, Hubert Knoblauch, Wade Clark Roof, Wayne E. Baker, and others has become increasingly widespread especially in Europe within the sociology of religion. In contrast to the secularization theory it assumes that processes of modernization will not lead to a decline in the social significance of religion, b…
Religious Change in Europe
The author describes the changes in church adherence and personal religiosity in European societies. In order to understand these changes, different theoretical models are available: the economic market model, the thesis of individualization, and the theory of secularization. A distinction between different dimensions of religion is used for discussing the applicability of these theoretical models on the process of religious change in European so…
Grenzen der Toleranz
Religiousness Inside and Outside the Church in Selected Post-Communist Countries of Central and Eastern Europe
In Western Europe more and more sociologists of religion are talking about religious individualization instead of secularization to describe the religious change in modern societies. Institutional forms of religion, especially traditional Christian Churches, are increasingly losing their social significance; new forms of religion, which are not so highly institutionalized and more syncretistic, are, however, emerging. The author raises the questi…
Das Ende einer Organisationsgesellschaft
Die Studie unternimmt den Versuch, den gesellschaftlichen Umschwung in der DDR mit Hilfe differenzierungstheoretischer, organisationssoziologischer und risikotheoretischer Unterscheidungen zu erklären. Die Ursachen für den gesellschaftlichen Umbruch in der DDR werden nicht im revolutionären Handeln des Volkes gesehen, sondern in einem komplexen Zusammenwirken systeminterner und systemexterner Faktoren, das im Sommer 1989 zur Öffnung der ungarisch…
Can the State Accelerate the Secular Transition? Secularization in East and West Germany as a Natural Experiment
Germany was a divided country from 1949 until 1989. During this period, West Germany remained a rather religious country, while East Germany became, under socialist rule, one of the most secular regions in the world. We use this case of socialist state intervention as a natural experiment to test Voas' model of secular transition, which states that all Western and Central European countries follow the same path and speed of secularization. We emp…
Varieties of Secularization Theories and Their Indispensable Core
In the social sciences, a new discourse on religion in modern societies has established itself. It is no longer the master narrative that religion is waning in significance that dominates the perspectives in the social sciences. The new key words are “deprivatization of the religious” (José Casanova), “return of the gods” (Friedrich Wilhelm Graf), “re-enchantment of the world” (Ulrich Beck)—or, quite simply, desecularization (Peter L. Berger). In…
Deinstitutionalisierung des Religiösen und Religiöse Individualisierung in Ost- und Westdeutschland
The Change in Religion and Church in Eastern Germany after 1989
This research note describes changes in religion and church in Eastern Germany after the demise of state socialism. In order to understand these changes, different theoretical models are examined: the market model, the thesis of individualization, and the theory of secularization. A distinction between different dimensions of religion is used for discussing the applicability of these theoretical models to the processes of religious change in East…
Individualisierung und religiöser Wandel in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Religionssoziologen gehen zunehmend davon aus, daß der religiöse Wandel in der Bundesrepublik und anderen westeuropäischen Staaten besser mit dem Begriff der Individualisierung als mit dem der Säkularisierung beschrieben werden kann. Dieser Aufsatz nimmt sich vor, diese Hypothese zu prüfen. Er kommt zu dem Ergebnis, daß Prozesse der Individualisierung, die für die Gesamtgesellschaft nicht zu bestreiten sind, auf dem religiösen Feld zu einer stärk…
Trust in institutions and the urge to be different
Why, despite improving living conditions, has the acceptance of the Western system of institutions (democracy, market economy) decreased in the past few years in eastern Germany? This article criticises the widely held socialisation thesis which seeks to explain the declining acceptance of the Western system on the basis of the difficulties faced by east Germans in adapting to the new conditions. Their attitudes were formed by the socialist syste…
Sozialstruktureller Wandel, Institutionentransfer und die Langsamkeit der Individuen. Untersuchungen zu den ostdeutschen Transformationsprozessen in der Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsy…
Article Sozialstruktureller Wandel, Institutionentransfer und die Langsamkeit der Individuen. Untersuchungen zu den ostdeutschen Transformationsprozessen in der Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, der Zeitschrift für Soziologie und der Sozialen Welt was published on April 1, 1996 in the journal Soziologische Revue (volume 19, issue 4)
Religiosität, gesellschaftliche Einstellungen und politische Orientierungen in Deutschland
Der Beitrag fragt danach, wie sich die religiöse Landschaft in Deutschland heute gestaltet und in welcher Beziehung sie zu anderen Bereichen des gesellschaftlichen Zusammenlebens steht. Dabei richtet sich der Blick sowohl auf allgemeine und übergreifende Tendenzen und Muster als auch auf Aspekte, die unterschiedliche soziale Gruppen voneinander trennen. Nach einem kurzen geschichtlichen Abriss wird die aktuelle Situation und Entwicklung des relig…
Modernisierungstheorie – revised
Versuche, die Modernisierungstheorie durch Preisgabe ihrer Grundunterscheidungen zu überwinden, haben sich als wenig erfolgreich erwiesen. Vielfach bleibt die Kritik an der Modernisierungstheorie ihren Basisunterscheidungen verhaftet. Daher scheint es angebracht zu sein, die klassische Modernisierungstheorie nicht dadurch überwinden zu wollen, dass man ihre Grundannahmen prinzipiell in Frage stellt, als bloße Zuschreibungen dekonstruiert, als eur…
Modifications in the Religious Field of Central and Eastern Europe
The aim of this paper is to analyse the current situation of religion in Central and Eastern Europe. The main question is whether the transformation processes in the former Communist countries are following lines of development comparable to those in the West, or whether completely new patterns of development will emerge in these countries. In order to show how church and religion developed in Central and Eastern Europe different religious dimens…
Religious Pluralism
Losing My Religion as a Natural Experiment
The sociological literature has produced a remarkably consistent picture of the quantitative patterns of religious disaffiliations in Western countries. This article argues, and demonstrates, that strong changes in a social context may lead individuals to disaffiliate rapidly, leading to very different aggregate effects from those in the 'western model.' We use the unique situation of the separation of Germany from 1949 to 1989 and its subsequent…
La théorie de la sécularisation au banc d'essai
Pendant des décennies, les chercheurs ont considéré que la religion et la modernité étaient en tension, avec cette thèse centrale : la diffusion des modes de vie modernes va de pair avec la diminution de la portée sociale de la religion et de l'Église. Plus une société se modernise (augmentation du niveau de vie, démocratisation, pluralisation et individualisation), plus elle se sécularise. Aujourd'hui, le nombre de chercheurs partageant ces hypo…
Probleme der Definition von Religion
Religiös-konfessionelle Kultur und individuelle Religiosität
Religion und gesellschaftliche Differenzierung
Das Ziel des vorliegenden Aufsatzes besteht darin zu prüfen, inwieweit die soziologische Differenzierungstheorie das Potential besitzt, den Beitrag der Religion zur Herausbildung der europäischen Moderne verständlich zu machen. Um die Frage nach dem religiösen Einfluss auf die Entstehung der modernen Welt differenzierungstheoretisch behandeln zu können, ist es zunächst erforderlich, das gebrauchte theoretische Instrumentarium zu erläutern. Es mus…
Religionssoziologie in Deutschland seit 1945
Historische Analyse statt Ideologiekritik
The debate regarding the applicability of the secularization thesis needs to make a sharp distinction between the context in which it was created and the grounds for its validity. The aim of this essay is to find empirically and theoretically wellfounded arguments against the secularization theory and to examine whether they are justified or not. But before announcing one's intention of criticizing the secularization theory, one needs to know wha…
Mass pressures, elite responses—roots of democratization
The article tries to explain the social and political upheaval in the former GDR by using a theoretical model worked out by Pierre Bourdieu. Transition research within political science focuses mainly on the functional prerequisites necessary to liberalize and democratize authoritarian regimes. Bourdieu’s model, however, also accounts for the historical events, the political actors and their actions, and the social and political mechanisms throug…
Das Ende einer Organisationsgesellschaft
Die Studie unternimmt den Versuch, den gesellschaftlichen Umschwung in der DDR mit Hilfe differenzierungstheoretischer, organisationssoziologischer und risikotheoretischer Unterscheidungen zu erklären. Die Ursachen für den gesellschaftlichen Umbruch in der DDR werden nicht im revolutionären Handeln des Volkes gesehen, sondern in einem komplexen Zusammenwirken systeminterner und systemexterner Faktoren, das im Sommer 1989 zur Öffnung der ungarisch…
Von der Organisationsgesellschaft zur Risikogesellschaft. Soziologische Überlegungen zu den gesellschaftlichen Transformationsprozessen in Ostdeutschland
Sozialstruktur und Mentalität in Ostdeutschland
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Sozialstruktureller Wandel, Institutionentransfer und die Langsamkeit der Individuen. Untersuchungen zu den ostdeutschen Transformationsprozessen in der Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsy…
Article Sozialstruktureller Wandel, Institutionentransfer und die Langsamkeit der Individuen. Untersuchungen zu den ostdeutschen Transformationsprozessen in der Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, der Zeitschrift für Soziologie und der Sozialen Welt was published on April 1, 1996 in the journal Soziologische Revue (volume 19, issue 4)
Gegen den Strom
Individualisierung auf dem religiösen Feld
Die Individualisierungsthese hat sich in der religionssoziologischen Diskussion der letzten Jahren an die Stelle der Säkularisierungsthese gesetzt (Gabriel 1996). Ging die Religionssoziologie noch vor etwa 30 Jahren davon aus, daß Prozesse der Modernisierung, der Rationalisierung und Pluralisierung zu einem Bedeutungsrückgang von Religion und Kirche führen würden, so vertritt die Mehrheit der Religionssoziologen heute die Auffassung, daß die mode…
Individualisierung und religiöser Wandel in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Religionssoziologen gehen zunehmend davon aus, daß der religiöse Wandel in der Bundesrepublik und anderen westeuropäischen Staaten besser mit dem Begriff der Individualisierung als mit dem der Säkularisierung beschrieben werden kann. Dieser Aufsatz nimmt sich vor, diese Hypothese zu prüfen. Er kommt zu dem Ergebnis, daß Prozesse der Individualisierung, die für die Gesamtgesellschaft nicht zu bestreiten sind, auf dem religiösen Feld zu einer stärk…
Trust in institutions and the urge to be different
Why, despite improving living conditions, has the acceptance of the Western system of institutions (democracy, market economy) decreased in the past few years in eastern Germany? This article criticises the widely held socialisation thesis which seeks to explain the declining acceptance of the Western system on the basis of the difficulties faced by east Germans in adapting to the new conditions. Their attitudes were formed by the socialist syste…
Politischer Protest
Der Wandel der religiös-kirchlichen Lage in Ostdeutschland nach 1989
Nach dem Zusammenbruch des kommunistischen Regimes erwarteten nicht wenige Beobachter der Transformationsprozesse in Ostdeutschland eine neue Zuwendung der ostdeutschen Bevölkerung zu Religion und Kirche. Diese Erwartung gründete sich nicht nur auf die Tatsache, daß mit der Überwindung der Herrschaft des Kommunismus auch die über Jahrzehnte hinweg erfolgte systematische Ausgrenzung, Stigmatisierung und Unterdrückung von Religion und Kirche ein En…
Politischer Protest
Religiöse Individualisierung statt Säkularisierung? Eine falsche Alternative
Probleme der funktionalen Religionstheorie Niklas Luhmanns
Funktionale Analysen untersuchen Gegenstände im Hinblick auf Probleme, die mit ihnen gelöst sind. Aus dieser Herangehensweise resultieren eine Vielzahl von methodologischen Problemen, von denen vier hier im Hinblick darauf, wie Luhmann mit ihnen umgeht, behandelt werden: das Problem der inkongruenten Perspektive, das der Wahl des jeweiligen Bezugsgesichtspunktes, der Unbestimmtheit und Weite funktionaler Analysen sowie das Problem der häufig mit …
Modifications in the Religious Field of Central and Eastern Europe
The aim of this paper is to analyse the current situation of religion in Central and Eastern Europe. The main question is whether the transformation processes in the former Communist countries are following lines of development comparable to those in the West, or whether completely new patterns of development will emerge in these countries. In order to show how church and religion developed in Central and Eastern Europe different religious dimens…
Mass pressures, elite responses—roots of democratization
The article tries to explain the social and political upheaval in the former GDR by using a theoretical model worked out by Pierre Bourdieu. Transition research within political science focuses mainly on the functional prerequisites necessary to liberalize and democratize authoritarian regimes. Bourdieu’s model, however, also accounts for the historical events, the political actors and their actions, and the social and political mechanisms throug…
The Change in Religion and Church in Eastern Germany after 1989
This research note describes changes in religion and church in Eastern Germany after the demise of state socialism. In order to understand these changes, different theoretical models are examined: the market model, the thesis of individualization, and the theory of secularization. A distinction between different dimensions of religion is used for discussing the applicability of these theoretical models to the processes of religious change in East…
Deinstitutionalisierung des Religiösen und Religiöse Individualisierung in Ost- und Westdeutschland
Religiousness Inside and Outside the Church in Selected Post-Communist Countries of Central and Eastern Europe
In Western Europe more and more sociologists of religion are talking about religious individualization instead of secularization to describe the religious change in modern societies. Institutional forms of religion, especially traditional Christian Churches, are increasingly losing their social significance; new forms of religion, which are not so highly institutionalized and more syncretistic, are, however, emerging. The author raises the questi…
Support for Democracy in Eastern and Western Germany
This paper raises the question to what extent of East Germans support the political system in which they live. Have people who lived for decades under authoritarian conditions been able to develop a democratic culture? Or are their mind-sets and attitudes still influenced by the effects of GDR socialization with its socialist values and ideals? The paper argues that the peculiarities of the political culture in East Germany are less attributable …
Osteuropas Bevölkerung auf dem Weg in die Demokratie
Mit den ersten systematischen Untersuchungen der Politischen-Kultur-Forschung in den späten fünfziger Jahren hat sich die Frage nach der Stabilität von politischen Systemen und ihre Abhängigkeit von den Einstellungen der Bevölkerungen fest als Forschungsthema in den Sozialwissenschaften etabliert. Die leitende Frage dieser Forschungsrichtung lautet, ob und inwieweit politische Systeme der kulturellen Unterstützung bedürfen, um dauerhaft zu funkti…
Sacred and Secular
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Religious individualization or secularization? Testing hypotheses of religious change - the case of Eastern and Western Germany
The individualization thesis advanced by sociologists of religion such as Grace Davie, Danièle Hervieu-Léger, Michael Krüggeler, Thomas Luckmann, Hubert Knoblauch, Wade Clark Roof, Wayne E. Baker, and others has become increasingly widespread especially in Europe within the sociology of religion. In contrast to the secularization theory it assumes that processes of modernization will not lead to a decline in the social significance of religion, b…
Religious Change in Europe
The author describes the changes in church adherence and personal religiosity in European societies. In order to understand these changes, different theoretical models are available: the economic market model, the thesis of individualization, and the theory of secularization. A distinction between different dimensions of religion is used for discussing the applicability of these theoretical models on the process of religious change in European so…
Kirchlichkeit, Religiosität und Spiritualität in Europa
Historische Analyse statt Ideologiekritik
The debate regarding the applicability of the secularization thesis needs to make a sharp distinction between the context in which it was created and the grounds for its validity. The aim of this essay is to find empirically and theoretically wellfounded arguments against the secularization theory and to examine whether they are justified or not. But before announcing one's intention of criticizing the secularization theory, one needs to know wha…
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