Defending the Faith Global Histories of Apologetics and Politics in the Twentieth Century

Hugh McLeod, University of Birmingham,Todd Weir, University of Groningen

Hugh McLeod was Professor of Church History at the University of Birmingham 1994-2010 and was president of CIHEC, the international organisation of historians of Christianity 2005-10. He has held visiting posts at Amsterdam, Uppsala, M?nster and Mainz, and is a Fellow of the British Academy. His books include Piety and Poverty: Working Class Religion in Berlin, London and New York, 1870-1914 (1996), Secularisation in Western Europe, 1848-1914 (2000), The Religious Crisis of the 1960s (2007). He edited the 20th century volume of The Cambridge History of Christianity (2006).

Todd H. Weir is Professor of History of Christianity and Modern Culture in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the University of Groningen. Prior to arriving in the Netherlands, he taught at Queen's University Belfast for nine years. He is the author of Secularism and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Germany: The Rise of the Fourth Confession (Cambridge, 2014) which won Jacques Barzun Prize for Cultural History, and is currently completing its sequel: Socialism and Secularism in Germany 1890 to 1933: Two Cultures.

Note on Contributors
Introduction HUGH MCLEOD and TODD H. WEIR
Part I: Apologetics in Interwar Europe
1. The Apologetics of Modern Culture Wars: The Case of Weimar Germany, TODD H. WEIR
2. Ideology and Futurology in Early Twentieth-Century Britain: Wells, Haldane, Bernal and their Critics, PETER BOWLER
3. Vivat Christus Rex! The Cult of Christ the King, Vatican Apologetics, Catholic Action and the Far Right, JOHN POLLARD
4. Between Rome and the Godless. Martin Niem?ller's apologetic moves, 1930-1950, BENJAMIN ZIEMANN
5. British and Muslim? British Converts and their Apologetics for Islam in the Interwar Period, UMAR RYAD
Part II: Transnational Apologetics during the Cold War
6. From Mental Slavery to Brainwashing: Anti-Catholic Legacies in Anti-Communism Polemics, UDI GREENBERG and JENNIFER MILLER
7. "Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself": Billy Graham's apologetics and the Cold War West, UTA BALBIER
8. The apologetics of decolonisation: Defending religion in South and Southeast Asia after the Second World War, CLEMENS SIX
9. Atheism as a Vocation: Soviet Communism, Religious Apostates, and Atheist Apologists, VICTORIA SMOLKIN
Part III: Apologetics since the 1960s
10. "Sacred Values": Islam, Communism, and Moroccan Nationalism in the Long 1960s, ALMA HECKMAN
11. 'A World to be Transfigured': Shaping a Cold War vision of Orthodoxy from the South, VLAD NAUMESCU
12. Louis Jacobs, Revelation, and the Ongoing Battle to Defend Jewish Orthodoxy, MIRI FREUD-KANDEL
13. Recognising secularisation: The Church of England and its struggle for a political role (1960-90), PETER ITZEN
Afterword: Apologetics as a seismograph of social change MONIKA WOHLRAB-SAHR
Index