Religion and the people of Western Europe, 1789-1989
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Religion and the people of Western Europe, 1789-1989
(OPUS)
Oxford University Press, 1997
2nd ed
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Further Reading: p. [167]-173
Includes index and appendix I-II
Description and Table of Contents
Description
From the end of the eighteenth century, throughout western Europe, the official clergy, champions of privilege and tradition, were challenged by religious dissenters and minorities. Chapel confronted church in Britain and Scandinavia; Catholics struggled against Protestants in Germany and Ireland. The war between anti-clerical and Catholic in France and Spain reached its climax in the Spanish Bloodbath of the 1930s.
This book clearly maps out these polarizations and analyses the impact on religion of socialism, capitalism and the growth of cities. It examines the contrasts between the religion of the middle and working classes and between men and women. It discusses the appeal of movements like Methodism, Secularism, and Ultramontane Catholicism, and considers the crisis faced by the churches in many countries in the 1960s.
A new concluding chapter examines the role of religion up to 1990, and how it has been affected by modern changes in society and beliefs.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. The Revolution
- 2. Social Cleavage
- 3. Three Kinds of Religion
- 4. The Countryside
- 5. Urbanisation
- 6. The Urban Middle Class
- 8. Fragmentation
- 9. [new conclusion]
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Appendix
- Maps
- Index
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