European Foundations of the Welfare State, 2012, p.75
1, 2012
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Christian Influences on Social Reform
- Ist Teil von
- European Foundations of the Welfare State, 2012, p.75
- Auflage
- 1
- Ort / Verlag
- United States: Berghahn Books
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2012
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- The question of the significance of Christianity for the emergence of the welfare state was first posed in 1983 by the German-American sociologist Arnold Heidenheimer. In a brilliant essay, he imagined a dialogue between the great sociologist Max Weber and Ernst Troeltsch, a leading theologian of liberal Protestantism in Germany. In reality, Weber and Troeltsch had actually undertaken a study tour together in the U.S. in 1904. Their aim was to examine the social forms of Protestant Christianity there, to which end they had developed the twin concepts of ‘church’ and ‘sect’. In the course of this tour they visited
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 0857454765, 9780857454768Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_ebookcentralchapters_982085_11_93
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Applied sociology, Behavioral sciences, Catholicism, Christian history, Christian philosophy, Christian socialism, Christianity, Churches, Ecclesiology, European history, Government, Human societies, Liberalism, Political change, Political ideologies, Political philosophy, Political processes, Political reform, Political science, Politics, Public administration, Public policy, Religion, Religious socialism, Social movements, Social policy, Social reform, Socialism, Sociology, Sociology of religion, Spiritual belief systems, Welfare & benefit systems, Welfare state