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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2006

Beth A. Griech-Polelle
Beth A. Griech-Polelle
Affiliation:
Bowling Green State University
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Abstract

The Wayward Flock: Catholic Youth in Postwar West Germany offers readers an elegantly written analysis of German Catholic subculture, or “milieu.” Ruff examines how it once successfully operated in the mid-nineteenth century and then explores why the same strategies failed to win the continued support of young Catholics in the postwar era of the Federal Republic. Ruff modifies the standard interpretation of the 1950s as a static time in German history, examines the impact of consumer culture on the Catholic subculture, and offers his own contribution to the theories of secularization.

Type
Book Review
Information
Central European History , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , March 2006 , pp. 176 - 178
Copyright
© 2006 Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association

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