The Transformation of the Christian Churches in Western Europe (1945-2000) / Edition 1

by Jaak Billiet, Leo Kenis, Patrick Pasture

Overview

KADOC Studies on Religion, Culture and Society, Volume 6Research continues to show that the Christian religion is gradually disappearing from the public, cultural, and social spheres in Western Europe. Even on the individual level, institutionalized religion is becoming increasingly marginalized. New forms of religious life and community, however, may point toward a resurgence of Christian churches in postmodern Europe. This book focuses on the complex transformations Christian churches in Western Europe have undergone since World War II. In English and French.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789058676658
Publisher:	Leuven University Press
Publication date:	01/01/2010
Series:	KADOC Studies on Religion, Culture and Society Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

The Transformation of Christian Churches in Western Europe An Introduction Patrick Pasture (K.U.Leuven) Leo Kenis (K.U.Leuven) 7

Part I Continuities and Discontinuities in Religiousness 21

The Present Crisis in Historical Context Hugh McLeod 23

Feu la "nouvelle chrétienté" Étienne Fouilloux 39

Restoration and Erosion of Pillarised Catholicism in Western Europe Wilhelm Damberg Patrick Pasture (K.U.Leuven) 55

Left Catholicism in Western Europe A Brief Survey Gerd-Rainer Horn 77

Opening Windows or Opening Doors? Catholic Intellectuals as the Bearers of Secularisation in the Netherlands, 1945-1970 Lodewijk Winkeler 96

Late 20th-Century Trends in Catholic Religiousness Belgium Compared with Western and Central European Nations Karel Dobbelaere (K.U.Leuven) Jaak Billiet (K.U.Leuven) 113

Contemporary Syncretism in Europe Liliane Voyé 146

The American Exception? Secularisation and Religion in the United States, 1945-2000 Jon Butler 161

Part II Some Basic issues in Postwar Church Life 173

Fundamental Changes in the Social Ethic of the Christian Churches Johan Verstraeten (K.U.Leuven) 175

The Affirmation of Women's Religious Leadership: a "Modern" Issue? Anne-Marie Korte 194

God has no Favourites Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue: the Unity of God's Creation Anton Houtepen 207

Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue Hans Ucko 221

Christian Churches as Social Capital. An Empirical Study of the Relationship between Church Commitment, Religious Pluralism and Tolerance, and the Attitude towards Immigrants in Eleven European Countries Jaak Billiet (K. U.Leuven) Karel Dobbelaere (K.U Leuven) Bart Cambré (K.U.Leuven) 236

Part III Impact and Reception of Vatican II 253

La réception du Concile Vatican II dans la Curie romaine Philippe Chenaux 255

Collégialité et primauté dans l'application de Vatican II Jan Grootaers (K.U.Leuven) 267

Réception et conséquences de Vatican II. Un point de vue protestant André Birmelé 281

Reception and Implementation of the Second Vatican Council Religious Institutes Joachim Schmiedl 296

Bibliography 312

Colophon 352