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

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

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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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (496 p.) :; 1 figure
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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

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