Defending the faith : global histories of apologetics and politics in the 20th century /
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 le...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press,
2020.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Proceedings of the British Academy ;
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Table of Contents:
- 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.