Hugh McLeod

The 1960s were a time of explosive change and innovation in the Christian churches, as well as of charismatic leaders like Pope John XXIII and Martin Luther King. Using oral history, Hugh McLeod explains what happened to religion in the 1960s, why it happened, and how the events of that decade shaped the rest of the 20th century.

The Religious Crisis of the 1960s

David Hempton

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 differences between the United States and western Europe continue to be a focus of intense and sometimes bitter debate between three of the main schools in the sociology of religion. According to the influential "Secularization Thesis," secularization has been an integral part of the processes of modernization in the Western world since around 1800. For proponents of this thesis, the United States appears as an anomaly and they accordingly give considerable attention to explaining why it is different. For other sociologists, however, the apparently high level of religiosity in the USA provides a major argument in their attempts to refute the Thesis. Secularization and Religious Innovation in the North Atlantic World provides a systematic comparison between the religious histories of the United States and western European countries from the eighteenth to the late twentieth century, noting parallels as well as divergences, examining their causes and especially highlighting change over time. This is achieved by a series of themes which seem especially relevant to this agenda, and in each case the theme is considered by two scholars. The volume examines whether American Christians have been more innovative, and if so how far this explains the apparent "God Gap." It goes beyond the simple American/European binary to ask what is "American" or "European" in the Christianity of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and in what ways national or regional differences outweigh these commonalities.

Secularization and Religious Innovation in the North Atlantic World

How Secular was the Working Class?

Religion and Irreligion in Victorian England

Dans cet ouvrage élevé au rang de « classique » par l'English Historical Review, McLeod revisite la crise religieuse des années 1960 dans une perspective européenne et nord-américaine. Son usage des sources orales rend son travail très original et la perspective comparatiste qu'il adopte est assez rare pour être soulignée. Le texte a pour particularité de situer les questions religieuses dans un contexte véritablement international, contribuant ainsi à une histoire internationale de la spiritualité et de la sécularisation, autour de la notion de «déclin» de la chrétienté (revisitée), de la montée de la société de consommation dans les années 1960, de l'année 1968, et des questions de sexualité et de genre. L'ouvrage explore ainsi les interrogations de la décennie des « sixties » pour nous aider à mieux saisir les questions religieuses et spirituelles qui agitent nos sociétés contemporaines..

Autour de la crise religieuse des années 1960

Le déclin de la chrétienté en Occident

Cambridge University Press

Timothy Tackett

Thomas F. X. Noble

Stewart Jay Brown

K. Scott Bowie

Frances Margaret Young

Brian Stanley

Sheridan Gilley

Walter Simons

Julia M. H. Smith

Miri Rubin

R. Po-chia Hsia

Roberta A. Baranowski

Frederick W. Norris

Michael Angold

Augustine Casiday

Margaret Mary Mitchell

Emeritus Professor of Church History Hugh McLeod

A comprehensive history of Christianity in the century when it truly became a global religion.

The Cambridge History of Christianity: Volume 9, World Christianities C.1914-c.2000

Pieter Holtrop

Missions and missionaries explored from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day.

Missions and Missionaries

Todd Weir

Global Histories of Apologetics and Politics in the Twentieth Century

Defending the Faith

Nils Martinius Justvik

Robert Hess

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 centuries. The book is not limited to a narrow definition of Christianity, but rather encompasses a wide range of denominations, related philosophies and viewpoints. The contributors are international, and the geographical range of their chapters is equally wide, extending, for example, from China to Argentina, and from Australia to Poland. Some chapters focus on a single sport such as gymnastics, soccer or Australian Rules football, while others look at modern sports more generally. Different methodological and theoretical approaches have been adopted, as contributors enter the debates on, for example, cultural imperialism, gender, changing Christian attitudes to leisure, or the intersection between religion, politics and sport. Demonstrating the many-sided significance of the relationship between Christianity and Sport, this book is ideal for scholars of Sport History and Christianity. This book was originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.

Historical Perspectives

Sport and Christianity

First published in 1974, this book describes the religion of the East End, the West End, and the suburbs of London, where each section of society – as well as a variety of immigrant groups – has its own quarters, its own institutions, its distinctive codes of behaviour. While the main focus is on ideas, or unconscious assumptions, rather than institutions, two chapters examine the part played by the churches in the life of Bethnal Green, a very poor district, and of Lewisham, a prosperous suburb, and a third provides a picture of the church-going habits of each part of the city. The years 1880-1914 mark one of the most important transitions in English religious history. The latter part of the book examines the causes and consequences of these changes. This book will be of interest to students of history, and particularly those interested in issues of religion and class.

Class and Religion in the Late Victorian City

Steart J. Brown

Stewart J. Brown

Explores the impact of the Enlightenment, the religious re-awakenings and revolution on the Christian church.

The Cambridge History of Christianity: Volume 7, Enlightenment, Reawakening and Revolution 1660-1815

Hugh McLeod

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