Defending the Faith

Todd H. Weir is Professor of History of Christianity and Modern Culture in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the University of Groningen. Prior to arriving in the Netherlands, he taught at Queen's University Belfast for nine years. He is the author of Secularism and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Germany: The Rise of the Fourth Confession (Cambridge, 2014) which won Jacques Barzun Prize for Cultural History, and is currently completing its sequel: Socialism and Secularism in Germany 1890 to 1933: Two Cultures.Hugh McLeod was Professor of Church History at the University of Birmingham 1994-2010 and was president of CIHEC, the international organisation of historians of Christianity 2005-10. He has held visiting posts at Amsterdam, Uppsala, Münster and Mainz, and is a Fellow of the British Academy. His books include Piety and Poverty: Working Class Religion in Berlin, London and New York, 1870-1914 (1996), Secularisation in Western Europe, 1848-1914 (2000), The Religious Crisis of the 1960s (2007). He edited the 20th century volume of The Cambridge History of Christianity (2006).

• Note on ContributorsIntroductionPart I: Apologetics in Interwar Europe1: TODD H. WEIR: The Apologetics of Modern Culture Wars: The Case of Weimar Germany2: PETER BOWLER: Ideology and Futurology in Early Twentieth-Century Britain: Wells, Haldane, Bernal and their Critics3: JOHN POLLARD: Vivat Christus Rex! The Cult of Christ the King, Vatican Apologetics, Catholic Action and the Far Right4: BENJAMIN ZIEMANN: Between Rome and the Godless. Martin Niemöller's apologetic moves, 1930-19505: UMAR RYAD: British and Muslim? British Converts and their Apologetics for Islam in the Interwar PeriodPart II: Transnational Apologetics during the Cold War6: UDI GREENBERG and JENNIFER MILLER: From Mental Slavery to Brainwashing: Anti-Catholic Legacies in Anti-Communism Polemics7: UTA BALBIER: "Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself": Billy Graham's apologetics and the Cold War West8: CLEMENS SIX: The apologetics of decolonisation: Defending religion in South and Southeast Asia after the Second World War9: VICTORIA SMOLKIN: Atheism as a Vocation: Soviet Communism, Religious Apostates, and Atheist ApologistsPart III: Apologetics since the 1960s10: ALMA HECKMAN: "Sacred Values": Islam, Communism, and Moroccan Nationalism in the Long 1960s11: VLAD NAUMESCU: 'A World to be Transfigured': Shaping a Cold War vision of Orthodoxy from the South12: MIRI FREUD-KANDEL: Louis Jacobs, Revelation, and the Ongoing Battle to Defend Jewish Orthodoxy13: PETER ITZEN: Recognising secularisation: The Church of England and its struggle for a political role (1960-90)Afterword: Apologetics as a seismograph of social changeIndex

scholars and students of religion and politics in the twentieth century —especially those interested in thinking comparatively, theoretically,and internationally — will find this collection of essays a valuable addition to their libraries and classrooms.