Western Religion in the Long 1960s
The Yale church historian, Sydney Ahlstrom, had just emerged somewhat dazed from the Sixties when he reviewed the religious trajectory of the United States during that decade. He wrote that by 1966 it was clear that the post-war religious revival had completely frittered out, that the nation was mo...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2019]
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The journal of ecclesiastical history
Year: 2019, Volume: 70, Issue: 4, Pages: 823-831 |
| Review of: | Comment notre monde a cessé d'être chrétien (Paris : Éditions du Seuil, 2018) (McLeod, Hugh)
Religion und Lebensführung im Umbruch der langen 1960er Jahre (Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, V&R Academic, 2016) (McLeod, Hugh) |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Western world
/ Secularization
/ History 1960-1970
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy CH Christianity and Society KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBA Western Europe |
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Book review
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| Summary: | The Yale church historian, Sydney Ahlstrom, had just emerged somewhat dazed from the Sixties when he reviewed the religious trajectory of the United States during that decade. He wrote that by 1966 it was clear that the post-war religious revival had completely frittered out, that the nation was moving towards a crise de la conscience of unprecedented depth'. As well as a growing attachment to naturalism and "secularism"' he mentioned a creeping or galloping awareness of vast contradictions in American life between profession and performance, the ideal and the actual' and increasing doubt concerning the capacity of present-day ecclesiastical, political, social and educational institutions to rectify these contradictions'. As Ahlstrom made clear in a later essay, he saw the crisis faced both by the Roman Catholic Church and by the mainline' Protestant Churches as part of a wider loss of confidence or hope' in American society and a passing away of the certitudes that had always shaped the nation's well-being and sense of destiny'. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-7637 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of ecclesiastical history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0022046919000563 |