Nicholas Atkin (1960-2009) was Professor of Modern European History at the University of Reading, UK. Frank Tallett was, until his retirement, Head of the School of Humanities at the University of Reading, UK.

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• Introduction1 Catholicism in Retrenchment:the Eighteenth CenturyThe religious geography of EuropeEstablished churches and ErastianismThe Latin theocracyThe sociology of the Church: the secular clergyThe sociology of the Church: the regularsBelief and practiceConclusion:Catholicism in rupturePart 2: Catholicism in Revolution: 1789-1815The rupture, 1787-90Catholicism and counter-revolutionWar and dechristianisationThe revolution abroadRome and revolution:the last Pope?Napoleon and religionNapoleon and EuropeConclusion:revolution in retrospectPart 3: Catholicism Restored: 1815-50A new religious geography of EuropeThe age of con- cordats?Catholics under non-Catholic ruleReaction in theory and practiceA religious revival?Pius IX and the revolutions of 1848Conclusion: restoration reviewedPart 4: Catholicism Retuned: 1850-1914Ultramontanism and the papacyIdentity and nationalism: the anti-Catholic onslaughtThe Catholic intellectual world: modernism versus integralismSecularisationCatholicism overseasConclusion:a Church in the Pope 's imagePart 5: Catholicism and Reaction: 1914-45The First World War and its aftermathCatholics and dictatorsCatholics and the liberal democraciesCatholics and belief during the inter-war yearsThe Second World WarConclusion:change and continuityPart 6: Catholicism Revised: 1945-2002Catholics and Cold War: Eastern EuropeCatholics and Cold War: Western EuropeThe Second Vatican CouncilThe challenge of a new secularisationJohn Paul II: 'a living cult'ConclusionPart 7: Conclusion:Catholicism Reviewed

Nicholas Atkin (1960-2009) was Professor of Modern European History at the University of Reading, UK. Frank Tallett was, until his retirement, Head of the School of Humanities at the University of Reading, UK.

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• Introduction1 Catholicism in Retrenchment:the Eighteenth CenturyThe religious geography of EuropeEstablished churches and ErastianismThe Latin theocracyThe sociology of the Church: the secular clergyThe sociology of the Church: the regularsBelief and practiceConclusion:Catholicism in rupturePart 2: Catholicism in Revolution: 1789-1815The rupture, 1787-90Catholicism and counter-revolutionWar and dechristianisationThe revolution abroadRome and revolution:the last Pope?Napoleon and religionNapoleon and EuropeConclusion:revolution in retrospectPart 3: Catholicism Restored: 1815-50A new religious geography of EuropeThe age of con- cordats?Catholics under non-Catholic ruleReaction in theory and practiceA religious revival?Pius IX and the revolutions of 1848Conclusion: restoration reviewedPart 4: Catholicism Retuned: 1850-1914Ultramontanism and the papacyIdentity and nationalism: the anti-Catholic onslaughtThe Catholic intellectual world: modernism versus integralismSecularisationCatholicism overseasConclusion:a Church in the Pope 's imagePart 5: Catholicism and Reaction: 1914-45The First World War and its aftermathCatholics and dictatorsCatholics and the liberal democraciesCatholics and belief during the inter-war yearsThe Second World WarConclusion:change and continuityPart 6: Catholicism Revised: 1945-2002Catholics and Cold War: Eastern EuropeCatholics and Cold War: Western EuropeThe Second Vatican CouncilThe challenge of a new secularisationJohn Paul II: 'a living cult'ConclusionPart 7: Conclusion:Catholicism Reviewed

Nicholas Atkin (1960-2009) was Professor of Modern European History at the University of Reading, UK. Frank Tallett was, until his retirement, Head of the School of Humanities at the University of Reading, UK.

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• Introduction1 Catholicism in Retrenchment:the Eighteenth CenturyThe religious geography of EuropeEstablished churches and ErastianismThe Latin theocracyThe sociology of the Church: the secular clergyThe sociology of the Church: the regularsBelief and practiceConclusion:Catholicism in rupturePart 2: Catholicism in Revolution: 1789-1815The rupture, 1787-90Catholicism and counter-revolutionWar and dechristianisationThe revolution abroadRome and revolution:the last Pope?Napoleon and religionNapoleon and EuropeConclusion:revolution in retrospectPart 3: Catholicism Restored: 1815-50A new religious geography of EuropeThe age of con- cordats?Catholics under non-Catholic ruleReaction in theory and practiceA religious revival?Pius IX and the revolutions of 1848Conclusion: restoration reviewedPart 4: Catholicism Retuned: 1850-1914Ultramontanism and the papacyIdentity and nationalism: the anti-Catholic onslaughtThe Catholic intellectual world: modernism versus integralismSecularisationCatholicism overseasConclusion:a Church in the Pope 's imagePart 5: Catholicism and Reaction: 1914-45The First World War and its aftermathCatholics and dictatorsCatholics and the liberal democraciesCatholics and belief during the inter-war yearsThe Second World WarConclusion:change and continuityPart 6: Catholicism Revised: 1945-2002Catholics and Cold War: Eastern EuropeCatholics and Cold War: Western EuropeThe Second Vatican CouncilThe challenge of a new secularisationJohn Paul II: 'a living cult'ConclusionPart 7: Conclusion:Catholicism Reviewed