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Defending the faith
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This volume explores the many ways in which conflicts between secular worldviews and religions shaped the history of the twentieth century. It introduces the notion of 'apologetics' to highlight a common feature of these conflicts: both secular and religious groups employed a mixture of learned argument and popular propaganda to defend their faith, but also to come up with new forms of outreach and mission. By bringing the dynamics of religious and secular apologetics into a comparative perspective, and drawing on examples from Western Europe, the USSR, the USA, North Africa and Asia from the 1920s to the present, the volume offers important historical perspectives on current debates over the place of religion in contemporary politics.
| Title |
Defending the faith : global histories of apologetics and politics in the 20th century / edited by Todd H. Weir and Hugh McLeod. |
|---|---|
| Edition |
First edition. |
| Contributors |
Weir, Todd H. (editor) McLeod, Hugh (editor) |
| Publisher |
Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press |
| Creation Date |
2020 |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Content |
PART I: Apologetics in Interwar Europe -- 1. The Apologetics of Modern Culture Wars: The Case of Weimar Germany / Todd H. Weir -- 2. Ideology and Futurology in Early 20th-Century Britain: Wells, Haldane, Bernal, and Their Critics / Peter J. Bowler -- 3. Vivat Christus Rex! The Cult of Christ the King, Vatican Apologetics, Catholic Action, and the Far Right / John Pollard -- 4. Between Rome and the Godless: Martin Niemöller's Apologetic Moves, 1930-50 / Benjamin Ziemann -- 5. British and Muslim? British Converts and Their Apologetics for Islam in the Interwar Period / Umar Ryad -- PART II: Transnational Apologetics during the Cold War -- 6. From Mental Slavery to Brainwashing: Anti-Catholic Legacies in Anti-Communist Polemics / Jennifer M. Miller and Udi Greenberg -- 7. 'Communism Is a Religion That Is Inspired, Directed and Motivated by the Devil Himself': Billy Graham's Apologetics and the Cold War West / Uta Andrea Balbier -- 8. The Apologetics of Decolonisation: Defending Religion in South and Southeast Asia after the Second World War / Clemens Six -- 9. Atheism as a Vocation: Soviet Communism and Its Atheist Apologists / Victoria Smolkin -- Part III: Apologetics since the 1960s -- 10. Sacred Values: Islam, Communism, and Moroccan Nationalism in the Long 1960s / Alma Rachel Heckman -- 11. 'A World to Be Transfigured': Shaping a Cold War Vision of Orthodoxy from the South / Vlad Naumescu -- 12. Louis Jacobs, Revelation, and the Ongoing Battle to Defend Jewish Orthodoxy / Miri Freud-Kandel -- 13. Recognising Secularisation: The Church of England and its Struggle for a Political Role (1960-90) / Peter Itzen -- Afterword: Apologetics as a Seismograph of Social Change and an Arena of Secular-Religious Conflicts / Monika Wohlrab-Sahr |
| Series |
Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 232 |
| Extent |
x, 308 pages 24 cm. |
| Language |
English |
| Copyright Date |
©2020 |
| National Library system number |
997009925288405171 |
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