The transformation of the Christian churches in Western Europe
Subtitle: 1945-2000 = La transformation des églises chrétiennes en Europe occidentale
By: Leo Kenis, Jaak Billiet & Patrick Pasture, eds
Series: KADOC studies on religion, culture, and society -- 6; KADOC studies on religion, culture, and society -- 6.
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leuven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9789058676658
Notes: Articles in English and French.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-351).
Table of contents: title: The transformation of Christian churches in Western Europe : an introduction  -- Patrick Pasture & Leo Kenis; title: The present crisis in historical context  -- Hugh McLeod; title: Feu la "nouvelle chrétienté"  -- Étienne Fouilloux; title: Restoration and erosion of pillarised Catholicism in Western Europe  -- Wilhelm Damberg & Patrick Pasture; title: Left Catholicism in Western Europe : a brief survey  -- Gerd-Rainer Horn; title: Opening windows or opening doors? Catholic intellectuals as the bearers of secularisation in the Netherlands, 1945-1970  -- Lodewijk Winkeler; title: Late 20th-century trends in Catholic religiousness : Belgium compared with Wester and Central European nations  -- Karel Dobbelaere & Jaak Billiet; title: Contemporary syncretism in Europe  -- Liliane Voyé; title: The American exception? Secularisation and religion in the United States, 1945-2000  -- Jon Butler; title: Fundamental changes in the social ethic of the Christian churches  -- Johan Verstraeten; title: The affirmation of women's religious leadership : a "modern" issue?  -- Anne-Marie Korte; title: God has no favourites : ecumenism and interreligious dialogue : the unity of God's creation  -- Anton Houtepen; title: Ecumenism and interreligious dialogue  -- Hans Ucko; title: Christian churches as social capital : an empirical study of the relationship between church commitment, religious pluralism and tolerance, and the attitude towards immigrants in eleven European countries  -- Jaak Billiet, Karel Dobbelaere & Bart Cambré; title: La réception du Concile Vatican II dans la Curie romaine  -- Philippe Chenaux; title: Collégialité et primauté dans l'application de Vatican II  -- Jan Grootaers; title: Réception et conséquences de Vatican II : un point de vue protestant  -- André Birmelé; title: Reception and implementation of the Second Vatican Council religious institutes -- Joachim Schmiedl.