Böcker av Alana Harris

The fifth volume of The Oxford History of British & Irish Catholicism, which assembles synoptic chapters from leading historians of modern Catholicism, offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of the changing contours of the Church on two islands (and with connections across the world) throughout the twentieth century.

Utilising a comparative methodology and case studies of urban settings in the global north and south, this book provides a more nuanced understanding of the religious identities of migrants within the 'modern metropolis' and make a significant contribution to fields as diverse as twentieth-century immigration history.

Assesses the impact of the Second Vatican Council on the ordinary believer, alongside contemporaneous shifts in British society -- .