The Wayward Flock: Catholic Youth in Postwar West Germany, 1945-1965 - Tapa blanda

Ruff, Mark Edward

 
9781469615110: The Wayward Flock: Catholic Youth in Postwar West Germany, 1945-1965
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ISBN 10: 1469615118 ISBN 13: 9781469615110
Editorial: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014

Sinopsis

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the western and southern regions of Germany were home to intensely devout Roman Catholic communities. By the late 1950s, however, this Catholic subculture could not withstand the onslaught of a culture of consumption--motorcycles, Hollywood films, and vacations abroad. In The Wayward Flock, Mark Edward Ruff analyzes why the strategy of using modern means to fight modern society--which had worked so successfully from the 1870s to the 1920s--did not succeed in the postwar era.

Ruff examines the vast network of Catholic youth organizations in West Germany that had traditionally served as a source for future youth leaders and a means by which the church could resist the changes of modern society. But organization membership dwindled from nearly 1.5 million in the 1920s to 600,000 by the early 1960s, due in large part, Ruff argues, to generational differences, an emerging ethic of consumption, and changes in West Germany’s political makeup. Ultimately, Ruff demonstrates, church leaders were unable to provide viable alternatives to the antimodern and antiliberal ideologies of the past.

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Mark Edward Ruff is assistant professor of history at Saint Louis University. He is coeditor of Christliche Arbeiterbewegung in Europa, 1850-1950.

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Editorial
The University of North Carolina Press
Año de publicación
2014
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1469615118
ISBN 13 
9781469615110
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Número de páginas
302
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