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Christianity and Society in the Modern World

Series Editor: Hugh Mcleod

This series of social historical studies explores the relationship between Christianity and its social context in the period since 1500. Recent exciting new research in this field has greatly increased our understanding of how the changing face of Christianity as a historical religion during the period affected contemporary social attitudes, customs, and behaviour. The books in this series draw this research together, providing new perspectives and interpretations on a fascinating area of social history and bringing it before a wider audience.

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Reformation and the Visual Arts

The Protestant Image Question in Western and Eastern Europe

By Sergiusz Michalski

Series: Christianity and Society in the Modern World

Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World

Regulating Desire, Reforming Practice, 2nd Edition

By Merry Wiesner-Hanks

Series: Christianity and Society in the Modern World

The book surveys the ways in which Christian ideas and institutions shaped sexual norms and conduct from the time of Luther and Columbus to that of Thomas Jefferson. It is global in scope and geographic in organization, with chapters on Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox Europe, Latin America,...

Published February 23rd 2010 by Routledge
The British Missionary Enterprise since 1700

By Jeffrey Cox

Series: Christianity and Society in the Modern World

"... this book fills a gap in the historiography of mission history by providing a one-volume history of modern British missions... This work deserves a place on the shelves of university libraries and should be consulted by specialists and readers interested in the history of Christian missions."...

Published November 1st 2009 by Routledge
The Death of Christian Britain

Understanding Secularisation, 1800–2000, 2nd Edition

By Callum G. Brown

Series: Christianity and Society in the Modern World

The Death of Christian Britain examines how the nation’s dominant religious culture has been destroyed. Callum Brown challenges the generally held view that secularization was a long and gradual process dating from the industrial revolution. Instead, he argues that it has been a catastrophic and...

Published February 10th 2009 by Routledge
The Anabaptists

By Hans-Jurgen Goertz

Series: Christianity and Society in the Modern World

The Anabaptists were at the radical, utopian edge of the Reformation, ruthlessly repressed by Catholic, Lutheran and secular authorities alike. Hans-Jurgen Goertz gives a comprehensive account of their political and religious significance, their views, and their social setting within the wider...

Published July 29th 2008 by Routledge
Catholicism in Modern Italy

Religion, Society and Politics since 1861

By John Pollard

Series: Christianity and Society in the Modern World

John Pollard's book surveys the relationship between Catholicism and the process of change in Italy from Unification to the present day. Central to the book is the complex set of relationships between traditional religion and the forces of change. In a broad sweep, Catholicism in Modern ...

Published June 23rd 2008 by Routledge
The Redcoat and Religion

The Forgotten History of the British Soldier from the Age of Marlborough to the Eve of the First World War

By Michael Snape

Series: Christianity and Society in the Modern World

This compelling study presents the most comprehensive examination available of the role of religion in the army during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Through extensive analysis of official military sources, religious publications and personal memoirs, Michael Snape challenges the...

Published May 29th 2008 by Routledge
God and the British Soldier

Religion and the British Army in the First and Second World Wars

By Michael Snape

Series: Christianity and Society in the Modern World

Drawing on a wealth of new material from military, ecclesiastical and secular civilian archives, Michael Snape presents a study of the experience of the officers and men of Britain’s vast citizen armies, and also of the numerous religious agencies which ministered to them. Historians of the First...

Published November 2nd 2005 by Routledge
The Death of Christian Britain

By Callum G. Brown

Series: Christianity and Society in the Modern World

The Death of Christian Britain uses the latest techniques to offer new formulations of religion and secularisation and explores what it has meant to be 'religious' and 'irreligious' during the last 200 years. By listening to people's voices rather than purely counting heads, it offers a fresh...

Published December 21st 2000 by Routledge
Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World

Regulating Desire, Reforming Practice

By Merry Wiesner-Hanks

Series: Christianity and Society in the Modern World

Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World is the first global survey of such for the early modern period. Merry Wiesner-Hanks assesses the role of personal faith and the church itself in the control and expression of all aspects of sexuality. The book ranges over developments within...

Published September 30th 1999 by Routledge