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Projekte

A: Theology and social practice

A.1 | "Fresh start" or "breakdown"?
Catholic Theology and the 1968 Student Movement

Wolf, Hubert / Dahm, Benedict / Wissing, Stephan – Münster

1968 meant a break for many Catholics, especially with regard to their religious faith and their attachment to the Church. But what was the…

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Between Vatican II and the Wende of 1989–1990, the theological discourse and view of society changed significantly in the sense of this research…

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In the 1970s, the church parish was for most Catholics still a central location of ‘being Catholic.’ During that decade, it became a hotspot of the…

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B: Roles and Rituals

The aim of the project is to describe how Catholic women experienced ‘being Catholic,’ by examining conflicts that arose in the course of the…

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B.1.2 | Farewell from the 'Reverend'.
The Crisis of Priesthood after the Second Vatican Council

Großbölting, Thomas – Hamburg / Große Kracht, Klaus – Münster / Buerstedde, Alexander / Frühauf, Sandra – Hamburg

Whoever asks about the changes and continuities in 'being Catholic' on the level of semantics, practices and emotions in the Federal Republic of…

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Publikum auf dem Katholikentag 1968 in Essen

The encyclical Humanae vitae of 25 July 1968, which forbade Catholics the implementation of artificial birth control, gave way to enormous reactions…

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“The lords of the world would like that, wouldn’t they, if justice came only after death, if only then the rule of the lords, if only then the bondage…

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C: Civil society and politics

The history of Catholics in the context of the founding of the political party ‘Bündnis 90/the Greens’ has yet to be written.  That is a surprising…

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Education and teaching and school are central aspects of controversial debates since the 19th century. This especially concerns the question of…

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In the eyes of the West Berlin squatters’ scene, Vicar-General Johannes Tobei of the Catholic Diocese of Berlin, was guilty of a disgrace (Schweinerei

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