Stephen J. Heathorn is Assistant Professor of History at Indiana Unviersity-Purdue University, Indianapolis.Michael Gauvreau is a professor in the Department of History at McMaster University.

‘A very interesting and refreshing volume… explores the social forces outside and inside religious institutions that contribute to the various courses of ‘dechristianization’ of the West in the second half of the twentieth century.’ - David Eller (Anthropological Review Database 20 April 2014)

• Introduction: Nancy Christie (University of Western Ontario) & Michael Gauvreau (McMaster University) “’Even the hippies were only very slowly going secular’: Dechristianization and the Culture of Individualism in North America and Western Europe” Chapter 1: Callum G. Brown (University of Dundee), “Gender, Christianity and the Rise of No Religion: the Heritage of the Sixties in Britain” Chapter 2: Lynn Abrams (University of Glasgow), “Mothers and Daughters: Negotiating the Discourse on the ‘Good Woman’ in 1950s and 1960s Britain” Chapter 3: Sarah F. Browne (University of Nottingham), “Women, Religion and the Turn to Feminism: Experiences of Women’s Liberation Activists in Britain in the Seventies” Chapter 4: Melanie Heath (McMaster University), “Saving Marriage: A Comparison of Religion and Marriage Promotion In the United States and Britain”Chapter 5: Tina Fetner (McMaster University), “Religious Right Activism in Canada and the United States: Are We Headed In the Same Direction?”Chapter 6: Patrick Allitt (Emory University), “The Transformation of Catholic-Evangelical Relations in the United States:1950-2000”Chapter 7: Leslie Tentler (Catholic University of America), “Sex and Sub-Culture: American Catholicism Since 1945”Chapter 8: Michael Gauvreau (McMaster University), “’Without Making a Noise’: The Dumont Commission and The Drama of Quebec’s Dechristianization, 1968-71”Chapter 9: Brigitte Caulier (UniversitÉ Laval), “Making Temoins du Christ for the 20th Century: The European Origins of Religious Education in Quebec, 1930-1970” Chapter 10: Heather Laing (McMaster University), ”’The truly educated person will know his heritage’: Shifting Conceptions of Religious Education in the Ontario Public School System, 1940-1970”Chapter 11: Till Van Rahden (UniversitÉ de MontrÉal), “Families Beyond Patriarchy: Visions of Gender Equality And Child Rearing among German Catholics in an Age of Revolution”Chapter 12: Kevin Flatt (Redeemer University College), “The ‘New Curriculum’ Controversy and the Religious Crisis of the United Church of Canada, 1952-1965” Chapter 13: Nancy Christie, “’Belief Crucified upon a Rooftop Antenna’: Pierre Berton, the Comfortable Pew and Dechristianization” Chapter 14: Antonio Cazorla-Sanchez (Trent University), “A Different Path?: Authoritarianism, Catholicism and Laicization in Spain, 1939-75”Chapter 15: Patrick Pasture (Centre for European Studies), “De-Christianization and the Changing Religious Landscape in Europe and North America Since 1950: Comparative, Transatlantic And Global Perspectives”Chapter 16: Stephen Heathorn (McMaster University), “Echoes and Fragments: Popular Christianity, British Nostalgia and Post-Independence India” Chapter 17: Alana Harris (Oxford University), “Bone Idol? British Catholics and Devotion to St. Therese of Lisieux” Chapter 18: Hugh McLeod (University of Birmingham) “Reflections and New Perspectives”