Secularization and religious innovation in the North Atlantic world / edited by David Hempton, Hugh McLeod.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hempton, David, editor.

McLeod, Hugh, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Secularization (Theology).

United States--Religion.

United States.

Europe--Religion.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (407 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

This work provides a systematic comparison between the religious histories of the United States and western European countries from the eighteenth to the late twentieth century.

Contents:

The established churches, church growth, and secularization in imperial Britain, c.1830-1930 / Stewart J. Brown

Religious markets, capital markets, and church finances in industrializing America / Eric Baldwin

Evangelicalism and secularization in Britain and America from the eighteenth century to the present / David Bebbington

"There are no secular events" : popular media and the diverging paths of British and American evangelicalism / Heather D. Curtis

On the volatile relationship of secularization and new religious movements : a Christian Science case / David Holland

Mormons and materialism : struggling against the ideology of separation / Colleen McDannell

Women's history and religious innovation / Ann Braude

"Such a renewal" : Catholic al-male movements in modern Europe / Tine Van Osselaer

Pentecostalism and popular culture in Britain and America from the early twentieth century to the 1970s / Randall Stephens

Muscular Christianity : American and European / Hugh McLeod

GI religion and post-war revival in the United States and Great Britain / Michael Snape

"Billy Graham's cold war crusades " : re-Christianization, secularization, and the spiritual creation of the free world in the 1950s / Uta A. Balbier

Is there an American exceptionalism? : American and German Catholics in comparison / Wilhelm Damberg

How exceptional? : US Catholics since 1945 / Leslie Woodcock Tentler

Gospels of growth : the American megachurch at home and abroad / Kip Richardson

Religion, territory, and choice : contrasting configurations, 1970-2015 / Grace Davie

"Religious America, secular Europe" : are they really so different? / Hugh McLeod

Organizing concepts and "small differences" in the comparative secularization of Westen Europe and the United States / David Hempton .

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 25, 2017).

ISBN:

0-19-251903-4

0-19-183934-5

0-19-251902-6