Bøker av Hugh McLeod

Secularisation can mean many quite different things - rising unbelief, the privatisation of belief, weakening denominational identity, the development of a religiously neutral state. France is the classic example of the secularisation of society in the later nineteenth century.

Written by an international team of specialists, this book provides an authoritative account of religious change in seven European countries, both at the institutional & popular level, in Catholic, Protestant & Orthodox cities.

It goes on to analyse, making extensive use of oral history, the pervasive and many-sided influence of Christianity before considering the limits of this influence. The forms of Christianity most typical of this time are then considered, with special emphasis on Evangelism at home and abroad and differences between male and female religiosity.

It might have been little more than an annotated bibliography. It is in fact an important independent study in its own right.' The Expository Times