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This volume provides a systematic comparison between the religious histories of the United States and western European countries from the eighteenth to the late twentieth century.
This book is of great value to those interested in secularization trends over the last two centuries, as well as those interested in sociological and cultural studies.
The book is successful overall. College professors may find it helpful to pull out the most relevant pair of essays, rather than assign the entire book. The text is highly adaptable for teaching, and has much to offer in a variety of courses, not just those focusing on secularism. As both a useful teaching tool and a cohesive collection, the text offers much to the scholarship of secularism.
Secularization and Religious Innovation in the North Atlantic World is a well-articulated and internally diversified set of responses to questions of secularization that significantly enriches our knowledge and understanding of an issue that has different dimensionshistorical, theological, and political.
David Hempton is Dean of the Faculty of Divinity, Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies, and John Lord O'Brian Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School. Hugh McLeod is Emeritus Professor of Church History at the University of Birmingham. He is a historian specializing in the religious history of 19th and 20th century. His publications include The Religious Crisis of the 1960s (2007) and Religion and the People of Western Europe 1789-1990, Second Edition (1997).