Esther Peperkamp, Malgorzata Rajtar, Thomas Schmidt-Lux, Nikolai Vukov, Kirstin Wappler, Uta Karstein, Esther Peperkamp,
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...
The radical process of religious change in eastern Germany poses a real challenge to social researchers. Common explanations view either the socialist...
