Hugh McLeod / Werner Ustorf (eds.)

The Decline of Christendom in Western Europe, 1750 2000

Herausgeber: Mcleod, Hugh; Ustorf, Werner

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Produktbeschreibung

In this 2003 text, historians, sociologists and theologians discuss the decline of Christendom in Western Europe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 559g
• ISBN-13: 9780521814935
• ISBN-10: 0521814936
• Artikelnr.: 21488551

Autorenporträt

Hugh McLeod is Professor of Church History at the University of Birmingham. His previous publications include Piety and Poverty (1995) and Religion and the people of Western Europe (1997). He is president of the British branch of the International Church History Organisation.
Werner Ustorf is Professor of Mission at the University of Birmingham. His first book was on the Kimbanguists in Zaire. He has also published books on missionaries in Toyo and Ghana, and on the relationship between German missions and the Nazis.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Hugh McLeod; Part I: 2. The secularisation decade: what the
1960s have done to the study of religious history Callum G. Brown; 3.
Christendom in decline: the Swedish case Eva M. Hamberg; 4. New
Christianity: indifference and diffused spirituality Yves Lambert; Part II:
5. Established churches and the growth of religious pluralism: a case study
of Christianisation and secularisation in England since 1700 David Hempton;
6. Catholicism in Ireland Sheridan Gilley; 7. Long-term religious
developments in the Netherlands, c. 1750-2000 Peter Van Rooden; 8. The
potency of 'Christendom': The example of the 'Darmstädter Wort' (1947)
Martin Greschat; Part III: 9. The dechristianisation of death in modern
France Thomas Kselman; 10. The impact of technology on Catholicism in
France (1850-1950) Michel Lagrée; 11. Semantic structures of religious
change in modern Germany Lucian Hölscher; Part IV: 12. Master-narratives of
long-term religious change Jeffery Cox; 13. A missiological postscript
Werner Ustorf.