Found inside – Page 67Moreover, contacts between church institutions in East and West Germany ... Religious Affiliation The religious affiliation of the German population differs ... This volume presents the results of recent research by younger scholars working on major aspects of this subject. Being German, Becoming Muslim provides a fresh window into the connections and tensions stemming from a growing religious phenomenon in Germany and beyond. Preface, Introduction: The Germans, 1. Germany, The Land of Religious Struggles, 2. The Fall of The German Gods, 3. The Captivity of Berlin and the Condition of German Protestantism, 4. The Ideology of the Nazi Regime (Naziolgy), 5. Found inside – Page 96Whereas the German public was less concerned with the religious orientation of their immigrant population up until the 1980s, this situation changed rapidly ... Written in clear and compelling language, this book will be of interest to the general public and scholars alike. Together, these essays form a complex mosaic of German Jewry on the eve of its demise. “An excellent collection . . . well written and cogently argued.” —David N. Myers German history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is notoriously inaccessible to non-specialists. Found insideA transnational comparative history of lived religion and everyday Catholicism in Germany and Austria-Hungary during the Great War. Found inside – Page 101With about three million Muslims now living in Germany, comprising almost four percent of the German population, the multicultural experience and ... This book documents the current polarization in Germany regarding the issue of refugee immigration. It presents quantitative estimates for both xenophobia and xenophilia in the German population, including short-time changes. My dissertation explores the central role of Roman Catholic orders in the creation of a resilient and stable Catholic community in post-1945 East German society. By examining the everyday lives of ordinary Jews, this book portrays the drama of German-Jewish history -- the gradual ascent of Jews from impoverished outcasts to comfortable bourgeois citizens and then their dramatic descent into ... In "Poor, Sinning Folk," W. David Myers investigates the sixteenth-century fate of the medieval Christian sacrament of penance, the process of confessing to a priest in secret one's sins against God and other humans. Found inside – Page 105 percent — are of the oldest populations German origin . People who are ... The second - largest religion is Source : Government of Germany Sunni Islam , practiced mainly by the RELIGIOUS PERSUASION Turkish population . There are 54 ... Thus the book is in part a critique of the confessionalization thesis which dominates scholarship in this field. The book is not however focused narrowly on the concerns of German historians. This volume also seeks to understand the nature and timing of the exceptional contributions of German Jews to the thriving modern culture of such cities as late imperial Vienna and Berlin as well as to the specific religious culture of ... Ever since Germany formed in 1871, it has been a major world player. Found inside – Page 258Emigration from Germany may be said to have fairly commenced on a large scale in ... instrument of greatly promoting religion among the German population. This volume looks at how religious identity and symbolic ethnicity influence migration. Engaging with some of the central issues in the sociology of religion, this volume investigates the role and significance of churches and religion in contemporary Western and Eastern Europe. By contrast, this volume demonstrates a reemerging sense of community within the German-speaking Jewish population of these two countries in the two decades after World War I. Contrary to popular belief, these groups co-existed in common space, and interacted in complex ways. This book lays the foundation for a new kind of religious history. Found inside – Page 141Most Protestants belong to the Evangelical Church in Germany. In the former East Germany many people left their churches under Communist pressure; about half the population of eastern Germany has no religious affiliation (compared with ... This book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, politics, history and religion. Found inside – Page 21Germany's population was growing so fast that it had absolutely burst the bounds of the domestic labor market and spilled over into foreign enterprise . Based on published primary and secondary materials and oral interviews with some eighty communal and organizational leaders, experts and scholars, this book provides a comparative account of the reconstruction of Jewish communal life in ... Found inside – Page 52Departing from the impetus to root out the influence of religion and the Protestant church on the German population in the late 1940s, the FDJ soon evolved ... Schorsch -- The 1840s and the creation of the German-Jewish religious reform movement /Steven M. Lowenstein -- German-Jewish social thought in the mid-nineteenth century / Uriel Tal -- Religious dissent and tolerance in the 1840s / Hermann ... Found inside – Page 120East Germany The religious situation in Germany has changed rapidly during the last 50 years . The changes are ... in eastern Germany . As an indicator , we present the number of church members as a percentage of the general population . Found inside – Page 200... such as its revival in certain religious circles , in Germany . ... to evaluate the interaction between Muslims and the non - Muslim German population . The first English-language investigation of German policy toward the Catholic Church in occupied Poland, this compelling story also offers insight into the varied ways in which Catholics-from Pope Pius XII, to members of the Polish ... Found insideThis groundbreaking survey of German postwar religious life depicts a profoundly changed society: congregations shrink, private piety is on the wane, and public life has almost entirely shed its Christian character, yet there remains a ... Found insideSimilar variations of this story have been told before--focusing on the Jewish Catholic experience--but this is the first book-length study that focuses on a Christian minority group with the debate over military service central to its ... For All Students Ideal for a variety of courses, this completely up-to-date, alphabetically organized handbook helps students understand how people from German-speaking nations think, do business, and act in their daily lives. On March 13, 2016 three states elected their state parliaments. The AfD reached between 12.6% and 24.3% of the votes. What makes the anti-Islam and anti-refugee rhetoric so appealing? Where is the frustration coming from? In this work the reader should get an overview about both countries so that somebody who doesn't hava a good knowledge gets an impression of these countries. Found inside – Page 163inferior civilization with a primitive , superstitious religion . ... He was determined that there would be no surplus German population even if Europe ' s Jewish population and a significant portion of Germany ' s Slavic neighbors were ... Found inside – Page 52RELIGION The constitution guarantees religious freedom , the main religions being Catholicism and Protestantism , each with about 26 . 6 million adherents ( around one - third of the country ' s total population each ) . Religion is stronger in ... Found inside – Page 25In conclusion , the German understanding of separation of state and religion is a very specific one . ... of the state in spite of the generally accepted recognition of the “ imprinting power ' ( Prägekraft ) of Christianity on the German population . Today Protestantism is besides Catholicism and Orthodoxy one of the three basic forms of Christianity. This paper aims to describe and analyze typical customs, habits and symbols of the protestant religion as well Master's Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject Business economics - Offline Marketing and Online Marketing, grade: 1,0, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, 85 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This ... In the context of their recent dispersion, Russian-speaking Jews have become the vast majority of Germany’s longstanding Jewry. 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