The Sixties and Beyond

Author: Michael Gauvreau   Stephen J. Heathorn   Michael Gauvreau  

Publisher: University of Toronto Press‎

Publication year: 2013

E-ISBN: 9781442661561

Subject: B979 History of Christianity

Language: ENG

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‘A very interesting and refreshing volume… explores the social forces outside and inside religious institutions that contribute to the various courses of ‘dechristianization’ of the West in the second half of the twentieth century.’

Chapter

1 Gender, Christianity, and the Rise of No Religion: The Heritage of the Sixties in Britain

2 Mothers and Daughters: Negotiating the Discourse on the ‘Good Woman’ in 1950s and 1960s Britain

3 Women, Religion, and the Turn to Feminism: Experiences of Women’s Liberation Activists in Britain in the Seventies

4 Saving Marriage: A Comparison of Religion and Marriage Promotion in the United States and Britain

5 Religious-Right Activism in Canada and the United States: Are We Headed in the Same Direction?

6 The Transformation of Catholic-Evangelical Relations in the United States: 1950–2000

7 Sex and Subculture: American Catholicism since 1945

8 ‘Without making a noise’: The Dumont Commission and the Drama of Quebec’s Dechristianization, 1968–1971

9 Making Témoins du Christ for the Twentieth Century: The European Origins of Religious Education in Quebec, 1930–1970

10 ’The truly educated person will know his heritage’: Shifting Conceptions of Religious Education in the Ontario Public School System, 1940–1970

11 Families beyond Patriarchy: Visions of Gender Equality and Childrearing among German Catholics in an Age of Revolution

12 The ‘New Curriculum’ Controversy and the Religious Crisis of the United Church of Canada, 1952–1965

13 ’Belief crucified upon a rooftop antenna’: Pierre Berton, The Comfortable Pew, and Dechristianization

14 A Different Path? National Catholicism, Laicization, and Dechristianization in Spain, 1939–1975

15 Dechristianization and the Changing Religious Landscape in Europe and North America since 1950: Comparative, Transatlantic, and Global Perspectives

16 Echoes and Fragments: Popular Christianity, British Nostalgia, and Post-Independence India

17 Bone Idol? British Catholics and Devotion to St Thérèse of Lisieux

18 Reflections and New Perspectives

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