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German courts rarely hold the freedom of religious and non-religious belief to be infringed, as freedom of religion is limited by the exertion of other basic rights (and duties) guaranteed by the Grundgesetz. Already in the late 1970s, a teacher had also been denied the right to wear the distinct clothing of his religion at the workplace.
A 2023 estimate shows that 46.2% of the German population were non-confessional and not members of any religious group. [1] Christianity still has a notable presence in Western Germany, although the majority of the population in the northern states of Hamburg, Bremen and Schleswig-Holstein are not registered members of the main Catholic and Protestant churches.
Deprogramming is a controversial tactic that seeks to dissuade someone from "strongly held convictions" [1] such as religious beliefs. Deprogramming purports to assist a person who holds a particular belief system—of a kind considered harmful by those initiating the deprogramming—to change those beliefs and sever connections to the group associated with them.
German politics have been rocked by a string of problems in the past few months, from economic volatility to a budgetary crisis and farmers' protests.Through it all, the far-right Alternative for ...
The development in the police force reflects the development of society towards the right "like in a burning glass", whereby regional differences are to be expected. In Saxony, the CDU -led state government had claimed for decades that there was no problem with right-wing extremism in the state, thereby influencing the administration and police.
The growth of fundamentalism in science has taken place at the same time as the growth of fundamentalism in politics and religion. And as with so many other conflicts, the extremes—ostensibly in ...
Religion in politics covers various topics related to the effects of religion on politics. Religion has been claimed to be "the source of some of the most remarkable political mobilizations of our times". [1] Beyond universalist ideologies, religions have also been involved in nationalist politics. Various political doctrines have been directly ...
The German idea of freedom: History of a political tradition (University of Chicago Press, 1957) [ISBN missing] Kurlander, Eric. The price of exclusion: ethnicity, national identity, and the decline of German liberalism, 1898–1933 (Berghahn Books, 2006) [ISBN missing] Langewiesche, Dieter. Liberalism in Germany (Macmillan Press, 2000) [ISBN ...