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Secularization and Religious Innovation in the North Atlantic World
In the early twenty-first century it had become a cliché that there was a 'God Gap' between a more religious United States and a more secular Europe. The apparent religious …
Piety and Poverty
Drawing on moving personal accounts-letters, oral histories, and memoirs-as well as original documentary evidence found in parish records, histories, and demographic data, Hugh …
The Moral Psychology of Trust
Is it good to be trusting, or should we be wary of trusting others? Trust seems to be the basis of large-scale social cooperation and even of democracy itself, but in recent years …
Decline of Christendom in Western Europe, 1750-2000
Christendom lasted for over a thousand years in Western Europe, and we are still living in its shadow. For over two centuries this social and religious order has been in decline. …
Religion and Society in England, 1850-1914
Victorians liked to refer to England as 'a Christian country'. But what did this mean at the level of everyday life? The book begins with a social portrait of each of the …
Defending the Faith
This volume explores the many ways in which conflicts between secular worldviews and religions shaped the history of the twentieth century. It introduces the notion of …
Religion and the Working Class in Nineteenth-Century Britain
"e;It might have been little more than an annotated bibliography. It is in fact an important independent study in its own right."e; The Expository Times
Religion and the Rise of Sport in England
Tells the story of the changing relationship between sport and religion from 1800 to the present dayBoth religion and sport stir deep emotions, shape identities, and inspire …
The Cambridge History of Christianity: Volume 9, World Christianities c.1914–c.2000
The twentieth century saw changes as dramatic as any in Christian history. The Churches suffered serious losses, both through persecution and through secularisation, in what had …
Secularisation in Western Europe, 1848-1914
Secularisation can mean many quite different things - rising unbelief, the privatisation of belief, weakening denominational identity, the development of a religiously neutral …
Sport and Christianity
Sport and Christianity examines sport and Christianity from a variety of historical perspectives, with the main focus on the period from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first …
Secularization and Religious Innovation in the North Atlantic World
In the early twenty-first century it had become a cliche that there was a 'God Gap' between a more religious United States and a more secular Europe. The apparent religious …