Gordon Zahn

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Gordon C. Zahn (1918-) is an american sociologist.

  • 1952: Ph.D. Catholic University
  • 1953-1967: Professor of Sociology, Loyola University of Chicago
  • 1967-1980: University of Massachusetts at Boston
  • 1968: President, American Catholic Sociological Society

Gordon C. Zahn, a born intellectual, critically extended the conceptualizations found in the general sociological literature on social control to the historical issues of the modification of religions to national security ideologies, with the main focus of his own Roman Catholic tradition. He extensively studied the German Catholics during World War II. This sources became major sources for Catholic Peace activists and the Austrian national reminiscence on the loss of conscience during the period when the Nazis were in power.