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Reformation and the Visual Arts
The Protestant Image Question in Western and Eastern Europe
Series: Christianity and Society in the Modern World
Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
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Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World
Regulating Desire, Reforming Practice, 2nd Edition
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
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The British Missionary Enterprise since 1700
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
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The Death of Christian Britain
Understanding Secularisation, 1800–2000, 2nd Edition
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
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The Anabaptists
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
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Catholicism in Modern Italy
Religion, Society and Politics since 1861
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
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The Redcoat and Religion
The Forgotten History of the British Soldier from the Age of Marlborough to the Eve of the First World War
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
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God and the British Soldier
Religion and the British Army in the First and Second World Wars
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
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The Death of Christian Britain
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
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Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World
Regulating Desire, Reforming Practice
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

