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Is Europe Christian? / Olivier Roy ; translated by Cynthia Schoch
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roy, Olivier, 1949- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christianity--Europe--21st century.
- Christianity.
- Secularization--Europe.
- Secularization.
- Europe--Religion--21st century.
- Europe.
- Europe--Civilization--21st century.
- Genre:
- Church history.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii,186 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- Summary:
- As Europe wrangles over questions of national identity, nativism, and immigration, this book interrogates the place of Christianity, foundation of Western identity. Do secularism and Islam really pose threats to the continent's 'Christian values'? What will be the fate of Christianity in Europe? Rather than repeating the familiar narrative of decline, the book challenges the significance of secularized Western nations' reduction of Christianity to a purely cultural force relegated to issues such as abortion, euthanasia, and equal marriage. It illustrates that, globally, quite the opposite has occurred: Christianity is now universalized and detached from national identity. Not only has it taken hold in the Global South, generally in a more socially conservative form than in the West, but it has also 'returned' to Europe, following immigration from former colonies.
- Contents:
- Europe's Christian heritage
- Does secularization mean dechristianization?
- Another source of morality? The church versus modernism (1864-1964)
- The self-secularization of religion
- The turning point of the 1960s
- The religious secession: the encyclical Humanae vitae (July 1968)
- Identity and values: Europe and the other
- The end of Christian Europe or the end of religion?
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 2, 2020).
- Also issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-751391-3
- 0-19-752071-5
- 0-19-751384-0
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