Defending the Faith
Global Histories of Apologetics and Politics in the Twentieth Century
Edited by Todd Weir and Hugh McLeod
Table of Contents
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 Niemöller'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