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The fifth volume of
The Oxford History of British & Irish Catholicism, which assembles synoptic chapters from leading historians of modern Catholicism, offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of the changing contours of the Church on two islands (and with connections across the world) throughout the twentieth century.
List of contents
- Series Introduction
- Volume Introduction
- 1: Mary E. Daly: Ireland Before and After the Second Vatican Council
- 2: Stephen Bullivant: The Church in England and Wales: An Historical Overview
- 3: Paul Gilfillan: Twentieth-Century Scottish Catholicism: Poverty, Affluence, Freedom
- 4: Michael Snape: Catholics, War and Britain's Armed Forces
- 5: David Geiringer and Laura Kelly: Marriage, the Family, and Sexual Ethics
- 6: Stephen G. Parker: Catholic Education in Britain and Ireland
- 7: Mary Heimann and Cara Delay: Saints and Devotional Cultures
- 8: Robert Proctor: The Architecture and Art of British and Irish Catholicism
- 9: Christopher McElroy: Liturgy and Music
- 10: Bonnie Lander Johnson and Julia Mezaros: British and Irish Novels and the Catholic Imagination
- 11: Maria Power: Ecumenism and Inter-Faith Relations
- 12: Fiona Bateman: Ireland's Missions and Missionaries in the Twentieth Century
- 13: Carmen M. Mangion: Women Religious, Charitable Ministries and the Welfare State
- 14: Breda Gray and Louise Ryan: Migration, Migrant Chaplaincy, and Multi-ethnic Britain
- 15: Mary E. Daly and Marcus Pound: Clerical Abuse
- 16: Daithí Ó Corráin: The Travails of Contemporary Irish Catholicism from John Paul II to Pope Francis
- Statistical Appendices
About the author
Alana Harris is Director of the Liberal Arts programme and a Reader in Modern British Social, Cultural and Gender History at King's College London, having previously taught at Lincoln College, University of Oxford. Her books include Faith in the Family: A Lived Religious History of English Catholicism 1945-1982 (Manchester, 2013), Love and Romance in Britain, 1918-1970 (London 2014, edited with Timothy W. Jones), and The Schism of '68: Catholics, Contraception and Humanae Vitae in Europe, 1945-75 (London, 2018). Her research specialisms, explored in numerous journal articles, encompass the histories of gender and sexuality; ethnicity, race and migration; devotional cultures and material religion.
Summary
The fifth volume of The Oxford History of British & Irish Catholicism, which assembles synoptic chapters from leading historians of modern Catholicism, offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of the changing contours of the Church on two islands (and with connections across the world) throughout the twentieth century.
Additional text
One of the great strengths of this volume is both the widespread thematical coverage and the different paths of research opened up for others to continue exploring together British and Irish Catholic experiences and identities.
