The most common explanations view either the socialist past or larger scale processes of modernization to be the cause of eastern German secularization. The vol

As the birthplace of the Reformation, Germany has been the site of some of the most significant moments in the history of European Christianity. Today, however,

Although “entanglement” has become a keyword in recent German history scholarship, entangled studies of the postwar era have largely limited their scope to

This book explores the profound transformations that prisons and offender rehabilitation programmes in Eastern Germany have undergone with respect to religion.

The book argues that religion is a system of significant meanings that have an impact on other systems and spheres of social life, including cultural memory. Th