Christian Modernities in Britain and Ireland in the Twentieth Century (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Wood, John Carter

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book address various specific topics - from mass politics to sexuality - but are linked by a stress on how Christians played active roles in building "modern" life in twentieth-century Britain and Ireland.

The chapters were originally published as a special issue of Contemporary British History.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000822373
• Artikelnr.: 66423980

Autorenporträt

John Carter Wood is a researcher at the Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz, Germany. He is the author of Violence and Crime in Nineteenth-Century England: The Shadow of Our Refinement (2004); The Most Remarkable Woman in England: Poison, Celebrity and the Trials of Beatrice Pace (2012); and This Is Your Hour: Christian Intellectuals in Britain and the Crisis of Europe (2019). He has written several articles and essays on the topics of crime, violence, media, gender, and intellectual history.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Christian modernities in Britain and Ireland in the twentieth
century 1. Religion and the rise of mass democracy in Britain 2. Reframing
the 'laws of life': catholic doctors, natural law and the evolution of
catholic sexology in interwar Britain 3. 'The Relation of the Sexes':
towards a Christian view of sex and citizenship in interwar Britain 4.
Going 'part of the way together': Christian intellectuals, modernity and
the secular in 1930s and 1940s Britain 5. 'Christian civilisation', 'modern
secularisation', and the revolutionary re-imagination of British modernity,
1954-1965 6. Clerical modernisers and the media in Ireland: the journalism
of Fr Gerry Reynolds