Christian Churches and Postwar Society

Kristien Suenens is a senior researcher and heritage consultant at KADOC-KU Leuven, with a focus on the intersection of women's history and Catholicism. Kristien Suenens is a senior researcher and heritage consultant at KADOC-KU Leuven, with a focus on the intersection of women's history and Catholicism. Michael Snape is the inaugural Michael Ramsey Professor of Anglican Studies at Durham University. He is an ecumenical lay canon of Durham Cathedral and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has published extensively on the history of religion and conflict. Michael Snape is the inaugural Michael Ramsey Professor of Anglican Studies at Durham University. He is an ecumenical lay canon of Durham Cathedral and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has published extensively on the history of religion and conflict. Martin Baumeister held the Chair in Contemporary European History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich from 2003 to 2017. Until 2024 he has been the director of the German Historical Institute in Rome. He has published widely on the history of contemporary Southern Europe and the Mediterranean with a focus on Italy and Spain.

• Introduction Kristien Suenens, Michael Snape, and Martin Baumeister1 Refusal or Reconciliation, Renewal or Revolution: European Churches and the Legacy of the First World WarJan Bank2 Archbishop Söderblom, Lutheranism, and Ecumenism in Interwar Europe (1918-1925)Christian Chanel3 The Holy See and the Nationalisation of the New Italian Provinces (1918-1928)Daiana Menti4 The French Catholic Clergy and New Forms of Ministry and Apostolate after the First World WarXavier Boniface5 Between the Great War and the ‘Great Repression’: Women Religious Institutes in Postwar BelgiumKristien Suenens6 Between Secularisation and Revitalisation: ‘Waves’ of Religiosity in the Czech Lands (1918–1925)Tomáš W. Pavlíček7 Religious Reorientations and the First World War: The ‘Provincialisation’ of Herrnhut and the ‘Invention’ of SchönstattJan-Martin Zollitsch8 The Church, Christian Charity, and the Rehabilitative Process of Wounded First World War Veterans in Interwar BritainBethany Rowley9 American Quakers and Humanitarian Aid to Germany (1919-1922)Laura Viktoria Huth and Daniel Maul10 A Constant Trajectory: The Protestant Episcopal Church, the First World War, and its AftermathMichael SnapeColophon

Rather than solving any of these questions, the variety of case studies collected here whet the appetite for further research and demonstrate how much we still do not know about the complex story of Christianity in postwar Europe and America. Highly recommended. - Roland Clark, The Catholic Historical Review, vol. 112 no. 1, 2026, p. 150-151., https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cat.2026.a993539.