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In Germany, ''Kirchenaustritt'' (German, "church exit") is the voluntary termination of state-registered church membership. In this sense, it is only necessary where there are legal state consequences linked to a membership, but not all communities allow an exit. In Germany, the applicable state laws about "leaving the church" is therefore only for religious and ideological communities with corporate status, regardless of whether they refer to themselves as "church." Withdrawal from associations governed by private law is governed by the civil right of association. Leaving the church in addition to demographic factors have a significant share of the decline in membership of the United Churches in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In some countries where no state registration of church members exists however, the decline in public church membership unfolds (e.g., Poland, Spain) which is also reflected in the statistics of membership. ==History == The right to leaving the church in Germany had arisen from the state of the basic right of the freedom of religion. It was enacted for the first time in 1847 by the Edict of Frederick William IV. This Prussian tradition was established by law after the newly formed nation state of Germany during the Kulturkampf. The research distinguishes several church exit movements in German history. The first happened before the First World War (supported by social democrats and bourgeois supporters of Ernst Haeckel), the second was from 1919 (also mainly from the working classes, but also the middle classes). Between 1936 and 1940, a similar number was recorded as leaving the church after 1968 and after 1989 in both Germany and Austria. From 1933 to 1936 and from 1945 onwards in West Germany (Adenauer era) there were church entrance movements. In 1936, on the notification and personnel records of the registration offices and the staff papers, the term "believer in God" was introduced. Since the membership was not considered to be a religious community as well as "free thinking" in National Socialism as a career asset, there was provided the official name "God believers" for non-denominational Nazis a way to document so that one could not automatically classify "disbelief" as church exit. Leaving the church from 1937 to 1940 was strongly influenced by the "belief in God" by the Nazis and discussions about church-critical writings of authors such as Alfred Rosenberg (confession: "believe in God" or "German-believer in God") and Mathilde Ludendorff ("Federation of German knowledge of God") carried. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Religious disaffiliation in Germany」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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