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Author:   Todd Weir (University of Groningen) ,  Hugh McLeod (University of Birmingham)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.660kg
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9780197266915

ISBN 10:   0197266916
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   11 January 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Note on Contributors IntroductionHUGH MCLEOD and TODD H. WEIR: Part I: Apologetics in Interwar Europe 1: TODD H. WEIR: The Apologetics of Modern Culture Wars: The Case of Weimar Germany 2: PETER BOWLER: Ideology and Futurology in Early Twentieth-Century Britain: Wells, Haldane, Bernal and their Critics 3: JOHN POLLARD: Vivat Christus Rex! The Cult of Christ the King, Vatican Apologetics, Catholic Action and the Far Right 4: BENJAMIN ZIEMANN: Between Rome and the Godless. Martin Niemöller's apologetic moves, 1930-1950 5: UMAR RYAD: British and Muslim? British Converts and their Apologetics for Islam in the Interwar Period Part II: Transnational Apologetics during the Cold War 6: UDI GREENBERG and JENNIFER MILLER: From Mental Slavery to Brainwashing: Anti-Catholic Legacies in Anti-Communism Polemics 7: UTA BALBIER: ""Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself"": Billy Graham's apologetics and the Cold War West 8: CLEMENS SIX: The apologetics of decolonisation: Defending religion in South and Southeast Asia after the Second World War 9: VICTORIA SMOLKIN: Atheism as a Vocation: Soviet Communism, Religious Apostates, and Atheist Apologists Part III: Apologetics since the 1960s 10: ALMA HECKMAN: ""Sacred Values"": Islam, Communism, and Moroccan Nationalism in the Long 1960s 11: VLAD NAUMESCU: 'A World to be Transfigured': Shaping a Cold War vision of Orthodoxy from the South 12: MIRI FREUD-KANDEL: Louis Jacobs, Revelation, and the Ongoing Battle to Defend Jewish Orthodoxy 13: PETER ITZEN: Recognising secularisation: The Church of England and its struggle for a political role (1960-90) Afterword: Apologetics as a seismograph of social changeMONIKA WOHLRAB-SAHR: Index"

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The book is distinctive in extending the notion of apologetics to include non-Christian and even anti-Christian contentions. * David Bebbington, The English Historical Review * scholars and students of religion and politics in the twentieth century -especially those interested in thinking comparatively, theoretically,and internationally - will find this collection of essays a valuable addition to their libraries and classrooms. * Matthew S. Hedstrom, Church History * Defending the Faith nicely captures much of the variety and complexity of 20th century religious conflicts, and its use of apologetics to facilitate meaningful comparison is intriguing. * Graham G. Dodds, Politics, Religion & Ideology * The book presents a great variety of contributions... * Arie L. Molendijk, University of Groningen, NTT JOURNAL FOR THEOLOGY AND THE STUDY OF RELIGION 76.1 *

The book presents a great variety of contributions... * Arie L. Molendijk, University of Groningen, NTT JOURNAL FOR THEOLOGY AND THE STUDY OF RELIGION 76.1 *

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Todd H. Weir is Professor of History of Christianity and Modern Culture in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the University of Groningen. Prior to arriving in the Netherlands, he taught at Queen's University Belfast for nine years. He is the author of Secularism and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Germany: The Rise of the Fourth Confession (Cambridge, 2014) which won Jacques Barzun Prize for Cultural History, and is currently completing its sequel: Socialism and Secularism in Germany 1890 to 1933: Two Cultures. Hugh McLeod was Professor of Church History at the University of Birmingham 1994-2010 and was president of CIHEC, the international organisation of historians of Christianity 2005-10. He has held visiting posts at Amsterdam, Uppsala, Münster and Mainz, and is a Fellow of the British Academy. His books include Piety and Poverty: Working Class Religion in Berlin, London and New York, 1870-1914 (1996), Secularisation in Western Europe, 1848-1914 (2000), The Religious Crisis of the 1960s (2007). He edited the 20th century volume of The Cambridge History of Christianity (2006).

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