Secularisation in Western Europe, 1848 - 1914 (European Studies Series)

Type

Book

Authors

Hugh McLeod

ISBN 10

0312235119

ISBN 13

9780312235116

Tags

Church History, History, Europe, Christianity, General

Description

This detailed study deals with causes and consequences of secularization: political, social and cultural. Beginning with politics, Hugh McLeod asseses the French Third Republic, the classic example of the systematic secularization of public institutions. But even in France the secular state was opposed by a powerful Catholic counter-culture, and in Germany and England ties between church and state remained much closer. He examines the part played by different social groups and considers how the religious attitudes of workers differed from those of the middle class. How women differed from men, and Catholics from Protestant or Jews. Changes in individual belief and practice are also examined. - from Amzon

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