Europaisches und Globales Christentum / European and Global Christianity

Herausforderungen und Transformationen im 20. Jahrhundert / Challenges and Transformations in the 20th Century

edited by Katharina Kunter and Jens Holger Schjorring

Book cover: Europaisches und Globales Christentum / European and Global Christianity

Extent: 381 pages

Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Subjects: Religious Studies

Series: Arbeiten zur Kirchlichen Zeitgeschichte. Reihe B: Darstellungen

Series volume number: 54

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(October 2011)

ISBN: 9783525557068

Price: $109.00

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The historical investigation of Protestantism has frequently been confined to an internal national framework; and yet Church history of the twentieth century provides ample evidence for the fact that national tendencies have to be interpreted against the background of international developments, and cannot be adequately assessed in isolation. The present volume is an attempt to take this seriously. It contains contributions by scholars from many countries, mostly European. They represent various disciplines: History, Sociology and Church history. The book has four chapters: (1) Transformations and historical turning points in the twentieth century; (2) The world wars and their repercussions for the churches; (3) The post-war period. Totalitarian ideologies as a challenge for the churches; (4) Christian Europe? – Globalization – internationalization.

  • Edited by Katharina Kunter
  • Edited by Jens Holger Schjorring