"Christendom" refers to a society where Christianity is essentially compulsory. Western Europe, however, has been gradually moving away from Christendom for more than two centuries towards a society where a great variety of religious and non-religious options are available and none is able to claim a privileged position. Written by historians, sociologists and theologians from six countries, and including chapters on most European countries, this study examines this process of increasing pluralism and its implication for the future.
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'Christendom' means a society where Christianity is essentially compulsory. For more than two centuries in western Europe we have been gradually moving away from Christendom, towards a society where a huge variety of religious and non-religious options are available and none is able to claim a privileged position. This book, written by historians, sociologists and theologians from six countries, and including chapters on Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands, shows where we are now, and how we got here, and offers some predictions for the future.
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In 312 the Emperor Constantine declared Christianity the religion of the Roman Empire. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
former public church, secularisation story, alternative master narrative, secularisation theory, religious market structure, secularisation thesis, secularisation process, religious statistics, modern mass politics, religious decline, axial age Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Church of England, United States, Catholic Church, World War, Dutch Republic, Church of Sweden, Rodney Stark, Steve Bruce, Fraternal Council, Irish Catholicism, Roman Catholic, Callum Brown, Bryan Wilson, Devotional Revolution, Peter van Rooden, North America, French Revolution, Grace Davie, Thomas Kselman, Translating the Message, Death of Christian Britain, Industrial Revolution, Protestant Church, Age of Great Cities New!
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In 312 the Emperor Constantine declared Christianity the religion of the Roman Empire. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
former public church, secularisation story, alternative master narrative, secularisation theory, religious market structure, secularisation thesis, secularisation process, religious statistics, modern mass politics, religious decline, axial age Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Church of England, United States, Catholic Church, World War, Dutch Republic, Church of Sweden, Rodney Stark, Steve Bruce, Fraternal Council, Irish Catholicism, Roman Catholic, Callum Brown, Bryan Wilson, Devotional Revolution, Peter van Rooden, North America, French Revolution, Grace Davie, Thomas Kselman, Translating the Message, Death of Christian Britain, Industrial Revolution, Protestant Church, Age of Great Cities New!
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- The Death of Christian Britain (Christianity and Society in the Modern World) by Callum G. Brown on 5 pages
- European Religion in the Age of Great Cities: 1830-1930 (Christianity and Society in the Modern World) by Hugh McLeod on 4 pages
- The Myth of the Empty Church by Robin Gill on page 97, page 216, and page 217
- Religion in Secular Society (Pelican) by Bryan R. Wilson on page 24, page 36, and page 45
- Beyond Belief: Essays on Religion in a Post-Traditionalist World by Robert N. Bellah on page 77, and page 78
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- The Blackwell Companion to Protestantism (Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Religion) by Alister E. McGrath on page 154
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