Encounters with Modernity

<ul> <li> First book-length study that charts the Catholic Church in West Germany and its pastoral practice during the first three decades of the post-war period.</li> <li> Major reconsideration and historical reflection of the case in favour of secularization theory.</li> <li> New approach to 20th century German social history through the analysis of functional differentiation.</li> <li> A study that highlights the ambivalences of modernization in post-war Germany.</li></ul>