"Originally published as Katholische Kirche und Sozialwissenschaften 1945-1975."
Introduction
Counting piety: Church statistics and its uses
In search of social reality: sociography
Representation and contestation after the Council: opinion polling
Planning the future of the Church: organizations research
Psychology and group dynamics as "humane" scientific approaches
Conclusion. The scientization of the Church as an encounter with a dangerous modernity.
Encounters with modernity : the Catholic Church in West Germany, 1945-1975 by Benjamin Ziemann. ISBN 9781782383444. Published by Berghahn in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.