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The Sixties and Beyond : Dechristianization in North America and Western Europe, 1945-2000 /

In the decades following the Second World War, North America and Western Europe experienced widespread secularization and dechristianization; many scholars have pinpointed the 1960s as a pivotally important period in this decline. The Sixties and Beyond examines the scope and significance of dechris...

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Otros Autores: Christie, Nancy, 1958- (Editor ), Gauvreau, Michael, 1956- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • Introduction: 'Even the hippies were only very slowly going secular': Dechristianization and the Culture of Individualism in North America and Western Europe; 1. Gender, Christianity, and the Rise of No Religion: The Heritage of the Sixties in Britain; 2. Mothers and Daughters: Negotiating the Discourse on the Good Woman' in 1950s and 1960s Britain; 3. Women, Religion, and the Turn to Feminism: Experiences of Women's Liberation Activists in Britain in the Seventies; 4. Saving Marriage: A Comparison of Religion and Marriage Promotion in the United States and Britain
  • 5. Religious-Right Activism in Canada and the United States: Are We Headed in the Same Direction?; 6. The Transformation of Catholic-Evangelical Relations in the United States: 1950-2000; 7. Sex and Subculture: American Catholicism since 1945; 8. 'Without making a noise': The Dumont Commission and the Drama of Quebec's Dechristianization, 1968-1971; 9. Making Temoins du Christ for the Twentieth Century: The European Origins of Religious Education in Quebec, 1930-1970
  • 10. 'The truly educated person will know his heritage': Shifting Conceptions of Religious Education in the Ontario Public School System, 1940-1970; 11. Families beyond Patriarchy: Visions of Gender Equality and Childrearing among German Catholics in an Age of Revolution; 12. The 'New Curriculum' Controversy and the Religious Crisis of the United Church of Canada, 1952-1965; 13. 'Belief crucified upon a rooftop antenna': Pierre Berton, The Comfortable Pew, and Dechristianization; 14. A Different Path? National Catholicism, Laicization, and Dechristianization in Spain, 1939-1975
  • 15. Dechristianization and the Changing Religious Landscape in Europe and North America since 1950: Comparative, Transatlantic, and Global Perspectives; 16. Echoes and Fragments: Popular Christianity, British Nostalgia, and Post-Independence India; 17. Bone Idol? British Catholics and Devotion to St Therese of Lisieux; 18. Reflections and New Perspectives.