1st Edition
Christian Modernities in Britain and Ireland in the Twentieth Century
Introduction: Christian modernities in Britain and Ireland in the twentieth century
John Carter Wood
1. Religion and the rise of mass democracy in Britain
Pippa Catterall
2. Reframing the ‘laws of life’: catholic doctors, natural law and the evolution of catholic sexology in interwar Britain
Alana Harris
3. ‘The Relation of the Sexes’: towards a Christian view of sex and citizenship in interwar Britain
Laura Monica Ramsay
4. Going ‘part of the way together’: Christian intellectuals, modernity and the secular in 1930s and 1940s Britain
John Carter Wood
5. ‘Christian civilisation’, ‘modern secularisation’, and the revolutionary re-imagination of British modernity, 1954-1965
Sam Brewitt-Taylor
6. Clerical modernisers and the media in Ireland: the journalism of Fr Gerry Reynolds
Gladys Ganiel
Biography
John Carter Wood is a researcher at the Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz, Germany. He is the author of Violence and Crime in Nineteenth-Century England: The Shadow of Our Refinement (2004); The Most Remarkable Woman in England: Poison, Celebrity and the Trials of Beatrice Pace (2012); and This Is Your Hour: Christian Intellectuals in Britain and the Crisis of Europe (2019). He has written several articles and essays on the topics of crime, violence, media, gender, and intellectual history.
