Books in the Christianity and Society in the Modern World series

"Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World surveys the ways in which people from the time of Luther and Columbus to that of Thomas Jefferson used Christian ideas and institutions to regulate and shape sexual norms and conduct, and examines the impact of their efforts"--

Unique in placing Jewish experience in the context of Christian society, John Edwards' book brings together Christian and Jewish historiography in order to enrich our understanding of the social relationship between the two religions.

Addresses the reactions to the treatment of the 'old' Christian culture of modern Britain, the sixties in religious history, gender and the mutation of Christianity. This book demonstrates the validity of the death of Christian Britain in understanding contemporary religion and culture.

Hans-Jurgen Goertz gives a comprehensive account of the political and religious life of the Anabaptists, their views and their social setting within the wider context of the Reformation. Cove- rage given to England as well as mainland Europe.

Applies the insights of anthropologists to ritual change in the German Reformat ion, finding that Church and state cooperated in using ritual as an instrument for imposing social discipline.

Looks at the cultural, social, political and economic aspects of the Catholic church and its relationship to the different experiences across Italy over this dramatic period of change and 'modernisation'.

Views missionaries as institution builders rather than imperialists or heroes of social reform. This survey examines both Britain as the home base of missions and the impact of the missions themselves, while also evaluating the independent initiatives by African and Asia Christians.

Written by an international team of specialists, this book provides an authoritative account of religious change in seven European countries, both at the institutional & popular level, in Catholic, Protestant & Orthodox cities.

The author explores how the study of gender can enhance our understanding of religious history, in this study of women and their apprehensions of God in early modern England.

This is a study of the nature and extent of the education of women at this time in the context of both Protestant and Catholic ideological debates. This book offers wider insights into the controls placed on women and the freedom available to them.

This volume explores the first two centuries of America's religious history, examing the relationship between the socio-political environment, gender politics and religion.

Analyzing military sources, religious publications and personal memoirs, this book challenges widely-held views and presents the most comprehensive study available of the role of religion in the army during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Drawing on material from military, ecclesiastical and secular civilian archives, this work presents a study of the experience of the officers and men of Britain's vast citizen armies, and also of the numerous religious agencies which ministered to them. It is useful for students and scholars of military history, British history, and religion.