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Informationen zum Autor NICHOLAS ATKIN was Professor of Modern European History and Head of the School of History at the University of Reading, UK. Nicholas Atkin is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Reading, England. His publications include Church and School in Vichy France, 1940-44 (1991), Petain (1997), The French at War, 1934-44 (2001), The Forgotten French: Exiles in the British Isles, 1940-44 (2003), The Fifth French Republic (2005) and, with Frank Tallett, Priests, Prelates and People: A History of European Catholicism since 1750 (2003). Vorwort An examination of the Catholic Church's struggle to adapt to the new political landscape ushered in by the French Revolution. Zusammenfassung The Catholic Church has always been a major player in European and even world history. Whether it has enjoyed a religious dominance or existed as a minority religion! Catholicism has never been diverted from political life. This book records the Church struggling to adapt to the new political landscape ushered in by the French Revolution! and shows how the formation of nation states and identities was both helped and hindered by the Catholic establishment. It portrays the Vatican increasingly out of step in the wake of two world wars! the Cold War and the massive expansion of the developing world! with its problems of population growth and under-development. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1 Catholicism in Retrenchment:the Eighteenth CenturyThe religious geography of EuropeEstablished churches and ErastianismThe Latin theocracyThe sociology of the Church: the secular clergyThe sociology of the Church: the regularsBelief and practiceConclusion:Catholicism in rupturePart 2: Catholicism in Revolution: 1789-1815The rupture, 1787-90Catholicism and counter-revolutionWar and dechristianisationThe revolution abroadRome and revolution:the last Pope?Napoleon and religion Napoleon and EuropeConclusion:revolution in retrospectPart 3: Catholicism Restored: 1815-50A new religious geography of EuropeThe age of con- cordats?Catholics under non-Catholic ruleReaction in theory and practiceA religious revival?Pius IX and the revolutions of 1848Conclusion: restoration reviewedPart 4: Catholicism Retuned: 1850-1914Ultramontanism and the papacyIdentity and nationalism: the anti-Catholic onslaughtThe Catholic intellectual world: modernism versus integralismSecularisationCatholicism overseasConclusion:a Church in the Pope 's imagePart 5: Catholicism and Reaction: 1914-45The First World War and its aftermathCatholics and dictatorsCatholics and the liberal democraciesCatholics and belief during the inter-war yearsThe Second World WarConclusion:change and continuityPart 6: Catholicism Revised: 1945-2002Catholics and Cold War: Eastern EuropeCatholics and Cold War: Western EuropeThe Second Vatican CouncilThe challenge of a new secularisationJohn Paul II: 'a living cult'ConclusionPart 7: Conclusion:Catholicism Reviewed...
