Christian Modernities in Britain and Ireland in the Twentieth Century

ISBN-13: 9781032413945 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 158 str.

Opis

This book address various specific topics – from mass politics to sexuality – but are linked by a stress on how Christians played active roles in building “modern” life in twentieth-century Britain and Ireland.

The chapters were originally published as a special issue of Contemporary British History.

Spis treści

Introduction: Christian modernities in Britain and Ireland in the twentieth century  1. Religion and the rise of mass democracy in Britain  2. Reframing the ‘laws of life’: catholic doctors, natural law and the evolution of catholic sexology in interwar Britain  3. ‘The Relation of the Sexes’: towards a Christian view of sex and citizenship in interwar Britain  4. Going ‘part of the way together’: Christian intellectuals, modernity and the secular in 1930s and 1940s Britain  5. ‘Christian civilisation’, ‘modern secularisation’, and the revolutionary re-imagination of British modernity, 1954-1965  6. Clerical modernisers and the media in Ireland: the journalism of Fr Gerry Reynolds

O autorze

John Carter Wood is a researcher at the Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz, Germany. He is the author of Violence and Crime in Nineteenth-Century England: The Shadow of Our Refinement (2004); The Most Remarkable Woman in England: Poison, Celebrity and the Trials of Beatrice Pace (2012); and This Is Your Hour: Christian Intellectuals in Britain and the Crisis of Europe (2019). He has written several articles and essays on the topics of crime, violence, media, gender, and intellectual history.