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Christianity and Society in the Modern World Ser |
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Christianity and Society in the Modern World Ser
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BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- NOTES -- Part I RESPONSES OF THE CHURCHES TO URBANIZATION -- 1 AN ORGANIZATIONAL AND PASTORAL FAILURE -- NOTES -- 2 A RESURGENT RELIGION -- INTRODUCTION: THE DECLINE OF RELIGION? -- BELGIUM: INDUSTRY, LANGUAGE AND URBAN GEOGRAPHY -- THE COUNTER-REFORMATION AND CONSTITUTIONALISM -- THE 1880s CRISIS AND THE ORIGINS OF CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY -- LAY AND CLERICAL LEADERSHIP AND CHRISTIAN DEMOCRACY -- SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE RECRUITMENT OF NEGLECTED GROUPS -- CONCLUSION: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND SECULARIZATION -- NOTES -- 3 'MORE CHURCHES-MORE CHURCHGOERS' -- INTRODUCTION: THE CITY OF HANOVER -- CHURCH ORGANIZATION -- CHURCH-POLITICAL OPTIONS -- First attempts at a solution -- The City Mission -- More churches -- State support for the church-building programme -- The building up of real parishes -- THE RESULTS -- NOTES -- 4 THE ORTHODOX CHURCH AND THE WORKERS OF ST PETERSBURG 1880-1914 -- NOTES -- Part II URBAN RELIGIOUS CULTURES -- 5 BELFAST: THE UNIQUE CITY? -- NOTES -- 6 THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE IN URBAN FRANCE -- CATHOLICISM IN THE CITY -- RELIGIOUS ALTERNATIVES -- NOTES -- 7 'A CRUCIBLE OF MODEST THOUGH CONCENTRATED EXPERIMENT' -- NOTES -- 8 URBAN POPULAR RELIGION AND THE RITES OF PASSAGE -- NOTES -- Part III THE RELIGIOUS CONSEQUENCES OF URBANIZATION -- 9 THE MECHANISM OF RELIGIOUS GROWTH IN URBAN SOCIETIES -- THE PROBLEMS WITH THEORY -- THE MECHANISM OF RELIGIOUS GROWTH -- Rural change c. 1700-c. 1850 -- Proto-urbanization 1770-1840 -- Urbanization c. 1780-1910 -- Suburbanization c. 1870-c. 1940 -- Planned overspill c. 1945-90 -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 10 SECULARIZATION AND URBANIZATION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- PIETY IN THE FACE OF THE IMMINENT END OF THE WORLD IN EARLY MODERN TIMES (UP TO 1750) |
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THE WORDLY PIETY OF THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT (1750-1810) -- THE SEPARATION OF STATE AND SOCIETY FROM THE INFLUENCE OF THE CHURCH IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- SECULARIZATION AND SACRALIZATION OF CHURCH LIFE SINCE THE LATER NINETEENTH CENTURY -- SECULARIZATION OR RELIGIOUS DIFFERENTIATION IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY -- NOTES -- GUIDE TO FURTHER READING -- BELGIUM -- FRANCE -- GERMANY -- GREAT BRITAIN -- IRELAND -- RUSSIA -- SPAIN -- INDEX |
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Europe in the nineteenth century saw spectacular growth in the size and number of cities and in the proportion of the population living in urban areas. Many contemporaries thought that this social revolution would bring about an equally dramatic change in religious life. This book, written by an international team of specialists, provides an authoritative account of religious change, both at the institutional and popular level, in Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox cities, in seven European countries |
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2020. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries |
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Print version: McLeod, Hugh European Religion in the Age of Great Cities : 1830-1930
Florence : Taylor & Francis Group,c1995 9780415095228
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Cities and towns -- Europe -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.;City churches -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.;City churches -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.;Europe -- Church history -- 19th century.;Europe -- Church history -- 20th century
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