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1 online resource (x, 308 pages) |
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Christianity and society in the modern world |
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Christianity and society in the modern world.
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| Contents |
Organizational and pastoral failure : urbanization, industrialization and religion in Spain, 1850-1940 / William J. Callahan -- Resurgent religion : the rise of Catholic social movements in nineteent-century Belgian cities / Carl Strikwerda -- More churches, more churchgoers : the Lutheran church in Hanover between 1850 and 1914 / Hans Otte -- Orthodox church and the workers of St. Petersburg, 1880-1914 / Simon Dixon -- Belfast : the unique city? / David Hempton -- Varieties of religious experience in urban France / Thomas Kselman -- Crucible of modest though concentrated experiement : religion in Sheffield c. 1840-1950 / Clyde Binfield -- Urban popular religion and the rites of passage / Sarah Williams -- Mechanism of religious growth in urban societies : British cities since the eighteenth century / Callum G. Brown -- Secularization and urbanization in the nineteenth century : an interpretative model / Lucian Hölscher |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
Multi-User |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Cities and towns -- Europe -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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City churches -- Europe -- History -- 19th century
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City churches -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- History.
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Cities and towns -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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City churches
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Igreja e sociedade.
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Urbanizacao (sociologia)
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Historia da europa.
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Church history -- 19th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045635
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Europe -- Church history -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045636
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| Subject |
Europe
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Church history
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McLeod, Hugh
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| ISBN |
020399308X |
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9780203993088 |
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9780415095228 |
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0415095220 |
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9786610138586 |
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6610138583 |
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9781134867134 |
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1134867131 |
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1280138580 |
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9781280138584 |
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