Contents

Epigraph

Preface


1 ‘Distress of Nations and Perplexity’: Europe after the Great War

2 The Totalitarian Political Religions

3 The Churches in the Age of Dictators

4 Apocalypse 1939–1945

5 Resistance, Christian Democracy and the Cold War

6 The Road to Unfreedom: The Imposition of Communism after 1945

7 Time of the Toy Trumpets

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8 ‘The Curse of Ulster’: The Northern Ireland Troubles c. 1968–2005 373

9 ‘We Want God, We Want God’: The Churches and the Collapse of European Marxist–Leninism 1970–1990

10 Cubes, Domes and Death Cults: Europe after 9/11


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