The Sixties and Beyond : : Dechristianization in North America and Western Europe, 1945-2000 / / Michael Gauvreau, Stephen J. Heathorn, Michael Gauvreau.

• VerfasserIn: Gauvreau, Michael,; Heathorn, Stephen J.,
• MitwirkendeR: Abrams, Lynn,; Allitt, Patrick,; Caulier, Brigitte,; Cazorla-Sanchez, Antonio,; Christie, Nancy,; F.Browne, Sarah,; Fetner, Tina,; G.Brown, Callum,; Gauvreau, Michael,; Harris, Alana,; Heath, Melanie,; Heathorn, Stephen,; Laing, Heather,; McLeod, Hugh,; N.Flatt, Kevin,; Pasture, Patrick,; Van Rahden, Till,; Woodcock Tentler, Leslie,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (496 p.) :; 1 figure

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 dechristianization in the western world between 1945 and 2000.A thematically wide-ranging and interdisciplinary collection, The Sixties and Beyond uses a framework that compares the social and cultural experiences of North America and Western Europe during this period. The internationally based contributors examine the dynamic place of Christianity in both private lives and public discourses and practices by assessing issues such as gender relations, family life, religious education, the changing relationship of church and state, and the internal dynamics of religious organizations. The Sixties and Beyond is an excellent contribution to the burgeoning scholarship on the 1960s as well as to the history of Christianity in the western world.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction ,Even the hippies were only very slowly going secular':1 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':1 The Dumont Commission and the Drama of Quebec's Dechristianization, 1968-1971 -- 9. Making Témoins 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':1 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 Thérèse of Lisieux -- 18. Reflections and New Perspectives -- Contributors -- Index