Life Inside the Cloister

Thomas Coomans

• Paperback | Engels | Kadoc Studies on Religion, Culture and Society
• Sacred architecture as reality and metaphor in secularised Western society Christian monasteries and convents, built throughout Europe for the best pa... Lees meer

Left Catholicism, 1943-1955

Horn Gerd

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• This volume constitutes the first attempt to analyse the phenomenon of Western European Left Catholicism from a comparative and transnational perspect... Lees meer

Territories of Faith

• Paperback | Engels | Kadoc Studies on Religion, Culture and Society | nr. 30
• A novel and interdisciplinary perspective on post-war church building Lees meer

The Survival of the Jesuits in the Low Countries, 1773-1850

• Paperback | Engels | Kadoc Studies on Religion, Culture and Society | nr. 25
• In 1773, Pope Clement XIV suppressed the Society of Jesus. For the 823 Jesuits living in the Low Countries, it meant the end of their institutional re... Lees meer

Humble Women, Powerful Nuns

Kristien Suenens

• Paperback | Engels | Kadoc Studies on Religion, Culture and Society | nr. 26
• The fascinating story of four ambitious Belgian religious women in a male world Lees meer

Cold War Mary

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• First-ever study connecting the Cold War to the field of popular religiosity and Marian devotion Lees meer

The Maritain Factor

Heynickx Rajesh De Maeyer Jan

• Paperback | Engels | Kadoc Studies on Religion, Culture and Society | nr. 7
• By studying the reception and perception of the French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain, this book argues that European modernist artists and int... Lees meer

Catholicism and the Welfare State in Secular France

Fabio Bolzonar

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• Changing influence of Catholicism in secular France. Lees meer

Universalism and Liberation

Jacopo Cellini

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• The changing attitude of Catholic culture towards modernity. After decades of a problematic, if not plainly hostile, approach to modernity by Catholic... Lees meer

Gender and Christianity in Modern Europe

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• Case studies upon the use of concepts like feminization and masculinization in relation to christianity. Since the 1970s the feminization thesis has b... Lees meer

Neo-Thomism in Action

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• Multifaceted and in-depth analysis of the neo-scholastic movement Lees meer

Christian Masculinity

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• In the mid-nineteenth century, when the idea of religion as a private matter connected to the home and the female sphere won acceptance among the bour... Lees meer

Saving the Overlooked Continent

Hans Krabbendam

• Paperback | Engels | Kadoc Studies on Religion, Culture and Society | nr. 27
• How American Protestant missionaries created a new worldwide religious network Lees meer

Religious Institutes in Western Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries

J Demayer, S Leplae, J Schmiedl

• Paperback | Engels | Kadoc Studies on Religion, Culture and Society | nr. 2
• In the 19th century, religious institutes (orders and congregations) underwent an unprecedented revival. As partners in a large-scale religious modern... Lees meer

Religion, Children's Literature, and Modernity in Western Europe 1750-2000

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• In this book some 25 scholars focus on the relationship between religion, children's literature and modernity in Western Europe since the Enlightenmen... Lees meer

Towards an Era of Development

Peter Van Kemseke

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• A world of difference separates global politics in 1945 from 1965. In the twenty years after the second world war, a ‘Third World’ was added to the Co... Lees meer

Christian Democratic Parties in Europe Since the End of the Cold War

Steven Van Hecke, Emmanuel Gerard

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• The period since the end of the Cold War has been characterised by an acceleration in the European integration process, a changing pattern of politica... Lees meer

The Pious Sex

Tine Van Osselaer

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• The construction of gender in Belgian Catholicism. Although women were called the ‘pious sex’ much earlier, it was during the nineteenth century, when... Lees meer

Religious Institutes and Catholic Culture in 19th- And 20th-Century Europe

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• A broad perspective on the role of religious institutes in social and cultural practices. This volume examines the cultural contribution of religious ... Lees meer

Cardinal Mercier in the First World War

Jan de Volder

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• Church leaders and their contrasting opinions in the face of the Great War Lees meer

Christian Homes

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• Christian ideas on family, religion, and the home in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The cult of domesticity has often been linked to the priv... Lees meer

The Struggle with Leviathan

Emiel Lamberts

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• A panoramic picture of international politics and the formation of the modern State. The opposition to the omnipotence of the State – as symbolised by... Lees meer

The Intimate

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• The waning influence of the Catholic church in the ethical and political debate. For centuries the Catholic Church was able to impose her ethical rule... Lees meer

The Economics of Providence

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• The wealth and patrimony of religious institutes. During the French Revolution almost all monasteries and abbeys were suppressed and their possessions... Lees meer