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,

As the number of the non-affiliated and religiously indifferent is on the rise, this book adds a hitherto absent historical dimension to the field of secular st

As the first historical study of East Germany‘s sepulchral culture, this book explores the complex cultural responses to death since the Second World War. Top

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