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  • Religion and the Rise of Sport in England

    by Hugh McLeod ...
    Tells the story of the changing relationship between sport and religion from 1800 to the present day Both religion and sport stir deep emotions, shape identities, and inspire powerful loyalties. They have sometimes been in competition for people's resources of time and money, but can also be mutually supportive. We live in a world where sport seems to be everywhere. Not only is there saturation ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Sport and Christianity

    Historical Perspectives

    Edited by Hugh McLeod, Nils Martinius Justvik, Robert Hess ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
    Sport and Christianity examines sport and Christianity from a variety of historical perspectives, with the main focus on the period from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries.The book is not limited to a narrow definition of Christianity, but rather encompasses a wide range of denominations, related philosophies and viewpoints. The contributors are international, and the geographical ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Secularization and Religious Innovation in the North Atlantic World

    Edited by David Hempton, Hugh McLeod ...
    In the early twenty-first century it had become a cliché that there was a 'God Gap' between a more religious United States and a more secular Europe. The apparent religious differences between the United States and western Europe continue to be a focus of intense and sometimes bitter debate between three of the main schools in the sociology of religion. According to the influential 'Secularization ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Class and Religion in the Late Victorian City

    by Hugh McLeod ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
    First published in 1974, this book describes the religion of the East End, the West End, and the suburbs of London, where each section of society – as well as a variety of immigrant groups – has its own quarters, its own institutions, its distinctive codes of behaviour. While the main focus is on ideas, or unconscious assumptions, rather than institutions, two chapters examine the part played by ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • European Religion in the Age of Great Cities

    1830-1930

    by Hugh McLeod ...
    Series series Christianity and Society in the Modern World
    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 ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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    Patriots, Priests and the Roots of the Irish Revolution

    by Tom Garvin ...
    The present-day Republic of Ireland was created by a revolutionary elite which developed between 1858 and 1914. Here, one of Ireland's most eminent historians, Professor Tom Garvin, considers the social origins of the revolutionary politicians who became the rulers of Ireland after the 1916 Rising and examines their political preconceptions, ideologies and prejudices. In many cases they were not ... Read more

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  • The History of Political Thought

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Richard Whatmore ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Thinking about politics has tended to be historical in nature because of the comparisons and contrasts that can be drawn between past and present. Different periods in politics have used the past differently. At times political thought can be said to have been drawn directly from the study of history; at others, perhaps including our own time, the relationship is more indirect. This Very Short ... Read more

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  • Civic Continuities in an Age of Revolutionary Change, c.1750–1850

    Europe and the Americas

    Edited by Judith Pollmann, Henk te Velde ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This open access book explores the role of continuity in political processes and practices during the Age of Revolutions. It argues that the changes that took place in the years around 1800 were enabled by different types of continuities across Europe and in the Americas. With historians of modernity tending to emphasise the rise of the new, scholarship has leaned towards an assumption that ... Read more

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  • The Sixties and Beyond

    Dechristianization in North America and Western Europe, 1945-2000

    by Nancy Christie, Stephen J. Heathorn, Michael Gauvreau ...
    In the decades following the Second World War, North America and Western Europe experienced widespread secularization and dechristianization; many scholars have pinpointed the 1960s as a pivotally important period in this decline. The Sixties and Beyond examines the scope and significance of dechristianization in the western world between 1945 and 2000.A thematically wide-ranging and ... Read more

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  • Companion to Historiography

    Edited by Michael Bentley ...
    The Companion to Historiography is an original analysis of the moods and trends in historical writing throughout its phases of development and explores the assumptions and procedures that have formed the creation of historical perspectives. Contributed by a distinguished panel of academics, each essay conveys in direct, jargon-free language a genuinely international, wide-angled view of the ideas, ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

  • Catholic Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democracy

    by Jay P. Corrin ...
    Tracing the development of progressive Catholic approaches to political and economic modernization, Catholic Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democracy disputes standard interpretations of the Catholic response to democracy and modernity in the English-speaking world—particularly the conventional view that the Church was the servant of right-wing reactionaries and authoritarian, patriarchal ... Read more

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  • Disciplines of Faith

    Studies in Religion, Politics and Patriarchy

    by James Obelkevich, Lyndal Roper ...
    First Published in 1987. This volume has its remote origins in the 'Religion and Society' group - one of the feeders for 'History Workshop' - which began meeting at Nuffield College Oxford in 1965. The Group, which contained a number of people who were to become 'History Workshop' editors and contributors, began from a radical dissatisfaction at the exclusion of religion, as a central subject for ... Read more

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