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This volume explores some of the strategies employed by the Catholic Church as a whole to address problems of the global era, in particular the responses and resistance efforts undertaken in a bid to counteract the secularization crisis in both Europe and the Americas, through spiritual writers, World Youth Days and Catholic education.
About the author
Solange Lefebvre, Université de Montréal, is Professor of Religious Studies. Her publications include the edited volume
Public Commissions on Cultural and Religious Diversity: Analysis, Reception and Challenges (Routledge, 2017).
Alfonso Pérez-Agote, Complutense University of Madrid, is Professor of Sociology. His publications include
Cambio religioso en España: los avatares de la secularización (Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas, Madrid, 2012),
The Intimate, Polity and the Catholic Church (coedited with Karel Dobbelaere, Leuven University Press, 2015) and
Religion in the Public Sphere: Canadian Case Studies (University of Toronto Press, 2014).
Contributors are: Kevin Ahern, Andrea Althoff, Valérie Aubourg, Tricia C. Bruce, Karel Dobbelaere, Alejandro Gabriel Emiliano Flores, Paul L. Gareau, Ramiro Gómez-Arzápalo, Isabelle Jonveaux, Jean-François Laniel, Andrew P. Lynch, Slawomir Mandes, Graham P. McDonough, Wojciech Sadloń, Jesús Antonio Serrano Sánchez, Barbora Spalová, Jakob Egeris Thorsen, Helena Vilaça, Liliane Voyé
