This volume explores the many ways in which conflicts between secular worldviews and religions shaped the history of the twentieth century. It introduces the notion of 'apologetics' to highlight a common feature of these conflicts: both secular and religious groups employed a mixture of learned argument and popular propaganda to defend their faith, but also to come up with new forms of outreach and mission. By bringing the dynamics of religious and secular apologetics into a comparative perspective, and drawing on examples from Western Europe, the USSR, the USA, North Africa and Asia from the 1920s to the present, the volume offers important historical perspectives on current debates over the place of religion in contemporary politics.
| ISBN: | 9780197266915 |
| Publication date: | 11th January 2021 |
| Author: | Todd H Weir, Hugh McLeod |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press an imprint of OUP OXFORD |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 336 pages |
| Series: | Proceedings of the British Academy |
| Genres: |
Religion and politics History |
This volume explores the many ways in which conflicts between secular worldviews and religions shaped the history of the twentieth century. It introduces the notion of 'apologetics' to highlight a common feature of these conflicts: both secular and religious groups employed a mixture of learned argument and popular propaganda to defend their faith, but also to come up with new forms of outreach and mission. By bringing the dynamics of religious and secular apologetics into a comparative perspective, and drawing on examples from Western Europe, the USSR, the USA, North Africa and Asia from the 1920s to the present, the volume offers important historical perspectives on current debates over the place of religion in contemporary politics.
Defending the Faith features in the following genres: Religion and politics, History
Defending the Faith is available in Hardback
Defending the Faith was written by Todd H Weir, Hugh McLeod and published by Oxford University Press an imprint of OUP OXFORD
Defending the Faith has 336 pages
Yes it is part of Proceedings of the British Academy series
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