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Research 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, institutionalised religion is becoming increasingly marginalised. Some scholars, however, speak of a repositioning of the Christian churches in post-modern Europe, citing new forms of religious life and community. This book focuses on the complex mutations the Christian churches in Western Europe have experienced since World War II. The authors offer a comparative exploration of the situations in several countries and describe the evolution (including the specific growth and decline) of the various Christian denominations.
Contents
Contents
The Transformation of Christian Churches in Western Europe
An Introduction 7
Patrick Pasture (K.U.Leuven) & Leo Kenis (K.U.Leuven)
PART I
CONTINUITIES AND DISCONTINUITIES IN RELIGIOUSNESS 21
The Present Crisis in Historical Context 23
Hugh McLeod (University of Birmingham)
Feu la "nouvelle chrétienté" 39
Étienne Fouilloux (Université Lyon 2)
Restoration and Erosion of Pillarised Catholicism in Western Europe 55
Wilhelm Damberg (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) & Patrick Pasture (K.U.Leuven)
Left Catholicism in Western Europe 77
A Brief Survey
Gerd-Rainer Horn (University of Warwick)
Opening Windows or Opening Doors? Catholic Intellectuals as the
Bearers of Secularisation in the Netherlands, 1945-1970 96
Lodewijk Winkeler (KDC, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)
Late 20th-Century Trends in Catholic Religiousness
Belgium Compared with Western and Central European Nations 113
Karel Dobbelaere (K.U.Leuven) & Jaak Billiet (K.U.Leuven)
Contemporary Syncretism in Europe 146
Liliane Voyé (Université Catholique de Louvain)
The American Exception?
Secularisation and Religion in the United States, 1945-2000 161
Jon Butler (Yale University)
PART II
SOME BASIC ISSUES IN POSTWAR CHURCH LIFE 173
Fundamental Changes in the Social Ethic of the Christian Churches 175
Johan Verstraeten (K.U.Leuven)
The Affirmation of Women's Religious Leadership: a "Modern" Issue? 194
Anne-Marie Korte (Universiteit van Tilburg)
God has no Favourites
Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue: the Unity of God's Creation 207
Anton Houtepen (Universiteit Utrecht)
Ecumenism and Interreligious Dialogue 221
Hans Ucko (World Council of Churches, Geneva)
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 236
Jaak Billiet (K.U.Leuven), Karel Dobbelaere (K.U.Leuven) &Bart Cambré (K.U.Leuven; Universiteit van Tilburg)
PART III
IMPACT AND RECEPTION OF VATICAN II 253
La réception du Concile Vatican II dans la Curie romaine 255
Philippe Chenaux (Université du Latran, Rome)
Collégialité et primauté dans l'application de Vatican II 267
Jan Grootaers (K.U.Leuven)
Réception et conséquences de Vatican II. Un point de vue protestant 281
André Birmelé (Faculté de théologie protestante de Strasbourg)
Reception and Implementation of the Second Vatican Council
Religious Institutes 296
Joachim Schmiedl (Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule, Vallendar)
Bibliography 312
Colophon 352
