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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 range of their chapters is equally wide,
extending, for example, from China to Argentina, and from Australia
to Poland. Some chapters focus on a single sport such as
gymnastics, soccer or Australian Rules football, while others look
at modern sports more generally. Different methodological and
theoretical approaches have been adopted, as contributors enter the
debates on, for example, cultural imperialism, gender, changing
Christian attitudes to leisure, or the intersection between
religion, politics and sport. Demonstrating the many-sided
significance of the relationship between Christianity and Sport,
this book is ideal for scholars of Sport History and Christianity.
This book was originally published as a special issue of The
International Journal of the History of Sport.
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 the churches in the life of Bethnal Green, a very
poor district, and of Lewisham, a prosperous suburb, and a third
provides a picture of the church-going habits of each part of the
city. The years 1880-1914 mark one of the most important
transitions in English religious history. The latter part of the
book examines the causes and consequences of these changes. This
book will be of interest to students of history, and particularly
those interested in issues of religion and class.
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 range of their chapters is equally wide,
extending, for example, from China to Argentina, and from Australia
to Poland. Some chapters focus on a single sport such as
gymnastics, soccer or Australian Rules football, while others look
at modern sports more generally. Different methodological and
theoretical approaches have been adopted, as contributors enter the
debates on, for example, cultural imperialism, gender, changing
Christian attitudes to leisure, or the intersection between
religion, politics and sport. Demonstrating the many-sided
significance of the relationship between Christianity and Sport,
this book is ideal for scholars of Sport History and Christianity.
This book was originally published as a special issue of The
International Journal of the History of Sport.
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 institutional and popular level, in Catholic,
Protestant and Orthodox cities, in seven European countries.
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 the churches in the life of Bethnal Green, a very
poor district, and of Lewisham, a prosperous suburb, and a third
provides a picture of the church-going habits of each part of the
city. The years 1880-1914 mark one of the most important
transitions in English religious history. The latter part of the
book examines the causes and consequences of these changes. This
book will be of interest to students of history, and particularly
those interested in issues of religion and class.
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 institutional and popular level, in Catholic,
Protestant and Orthodox cities, in seven European countries.
Provides for a selection of texts, together with scholarly
introductions, from one of the world's great private libraries,
covering a period from Elizabeth I to the Church's involvement in
homosexual law reform. This volume of the Church of England Record
Society, published in celebration of the 400th anniversary of the
foundation of Lambeth Palace Library, is a tribute to the value of
one of the world's great private libraries to the scholarly
community and its importance for the history of the Church of
England in particular. Thirteen historians, who have made
considerable use of the Library in their research, have selected
texts which together offer an illustration of the remarkable
resources preserved by the Library for the period from the
Reformation to the late twentieth century. A number of the
contributions draw on the papers of the archbishops of Canterbury
and bishops of London,which are among the most frequently used
collections. Others come from the main manuscript sequence,
including both materials originally deposited by Archbishop
Sancroft and a manuscript published with the help of the Friends of
Lambeth Palace Library in 2007. Another makes use of the riches to
the papers of the Lambeth Conferences. Each text is accompanied by
a substantial introduction, discussing its context and
significance, and a full scholarly apparatus. The themes covered in
the volume range from the famous dispute between Archbishop Grindal
and Queen Elizabeth I, through the administration of the Church by
Archbishop Laud and Archbishop Davidson's visit to the Western
Frontduring World War I, to involvement of the Church in homosexual
law reform.
With each evolutionary improvement of the Internet, the unique
value of salespeople is challenged. Lower performing salespeople
and sales positions have been all but eliminated. Sales
Actualization organizes the hierarchy of consumer needs and
salesperson influence into the Sales Actualization Pyramid and
examines technology's influence at each level. Explore how
technology is improving its sales game and how the best salespeople
utilize the ultimate differentiator to outsell the Internet. Sales
Actualization includes original artwork inspired by the manuscript
from artist Hugh MacLeod of Gapingvoid.com.
Drawing on moving personal accounts-letters, oral histories, and
memoirs-as well as original documentary evidence found in parish
records, histories, and demographic data, Hugh McLeod explores the
role of religion in the everyday life of working-class communities.
The book reveals how belief and unbelief are related to the
experiences of poverty, social class and alienation, to the ways in
which people celebrated rites of passage and survived personal
crises, to relationships between men and women, and to political
organizations. McLeod examines the link between secularisation and
the growth of cities as centres of working-class life, and
chronicles how new forms of religiosity arose alongside secular
political movements and remained a force among the poor even as
institutional attachments diminished. Another important
contribution is the book's discussion of the gendering of religious
experience.
The 1960s were a time of explosive religious change. In the
Christian churches it was a time of innovation, from the 'new
theology' and 'new morality' of Bishop Robinson to the
evangelicalism of the Charismatic Movement, and of charismatic
leaders, such as Pope John XXIII and Martin Luther King. But it was
also a time of rapid social and cultural change when Christianity
faced challenges from Eastern religions, from Marxism and feminism,
and above all from new 'affluent' lifestyles. Hugh McLeod tells in
detail, using oral history, how these movements and conflicts were
experienced in England, but because the Sixties were an
international phenomenon he also looks at other countries,
especially the USA and France. McLeod explains what happened to
religion in the 1960s, why it happened, and how the events of that
decade shaped the rest of the 20th century.
The twentieth century saw changes as dramatic as any in Christian
history. The Churches suffered serious losses, both through
persecution and through secularisation, in what had been for
several centuries their European heartlands, but grew fast in
Africa and parts of Asia. This volume provides a comprehensive
history of Catholicism, Protestantism and the Independent Churches
in all parts of the world in the century when Christianity truly
became a global religion. Written by a powerful team of specialists
from many different countries, the volume is broad in scope. The
first part focuses on institutions and movements which have had a
worldwide impact, including the papacy, the ecumenical movement and
Pentecostalism. The second provides a narrative of Christian
history in each region of the world. The third focuses on selected
themes from an international perspective, including changes in
worship, relations with Jews and Muslims, science and the arts,
gender and sexuality.
Christendom lasted for over a thousand years in Western Europe, and
we are still living in its shadow. For over two centuries this
social and religious order has been in decline. Enforced religious
unity has given way to increasing pluralism, and since 1960 this
process has spectacularly accelerated. In this 2003 book,
historians, sociologists and theologians from six countries answer
two central questions: what is the religious condition of Western
Europe at the start of the twenty-first century, and how and why
did Christendom decline? Beginning by overviewing the more recent
situation, the authors then go back into the past, tracing the
course of events in England, Ireland, France, Germany and the
Netherlands, and showing how the fate of Christendom is reflected
in changing attitudes to death and to technology, and in the
evolution of religious language. They reveal a pattern more complex
and ambiguous than many of the conventional narratives will admit.
The 1960s were a time of explosive religious change. In the
Christian churches, it was a time of innovation, from the "new
theology" and "new morality" of Bishop Robinson to the
evangelicalism of the Charismatic Movement, and of charismatic
leaders such as Pope John XXIII and Martin Luther King. But it was
also a time of rapid social and cultural change when Christianity
faced challenges from Eastern religions, from Marxism and feminism,
and above all from new "affluent" lifestyles. Hugh McLeod tells in
detail, using oral history, how these movements and conflicts were
experienced in England, but because the Sixties were an
international phenomenon, he looks at other countries as well,
especially the U.S. and France. McLeod explains what happened to
religion in the 1960s, why it happened, and how the events of that
decade shaped the rest of the 20th century.
Secularisation can mean many quite different things - rising
unbelief, the privatisation of belief, weakening denominational
identity, the development of a religiously neutral state. This book
reveals both the many-sidedness of secularisation and the great
unevenness with which it affected different areas of life. France
is the classic example of the secularisation of society in the
later nineteenth century. Church and school, then church and state,
were separated. Town councils tore down crosses and banned
processions. Teachers and doctors were seen as a new priesthood.
Yet even in France things were not so simple. In the west, most
people remained practising Catholics, and Lourdes demonstrated the
continuing vitality of 'popular religion'. When we look at Germany
and England, or compare Catholics with Protestants and Jews, the
picture becomes even more complex. This book examines the nature
and causes of religious change in the three countries, and the
class, gender and regional differences within each.
"Christendom" refers to a society where Christianity is essentially compulsory. Western Europe, however, has been gradually moving away from Christendom for more than two centuries towards a society where a great variety of religious and non-religious options are available and none is able to claim a privileged position. Written by historians, sociologists and theologians from six countries, and including chapters on most European countries, this study examines this process of increasing pluralism and its implication for the future.
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