The Sixties and Beyond: Dechristianization in North America - download pdf or read online

By Nancy Christie,Michael Gauvreau,Stephen J. Heathorn

ISBN-10: 1442644753

ISBN-13: 9781442644755

In the many years following the second one international conflict, North the USA and Western Europe skilled frequent secularization and dechristianization; many students have pinpointed the Sixties as a pivotally vital interval during this decline. The Sixties and Beyond examines the scope and importance of dechristianization within the western international among 1945 and 2000.

A thematically wide-ranging and interdisciplinary assortment, The Sixties and Beyond makes use of a framework that compares the social and cultural reviews of North the USA and Western Europe in this interval. The across the world dependent individuals research the dynamic position of Christianity in either deepest lives and public discourses and practices via assessing matters reminiscent of gender family, relatives lifestyles, spiritual schooling, the altering courting of church and nation, and the interior dynamics of non secular enterprises. The Sixties and Beyond is a wonderful contribution to the burgeoning scholarship at the Nineteen Sixties in addition to to the historical past of Christianity within the western world.

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