Abstract Recent scholarship has sought to reinterpret the French biblical scholar Richard Simon, viewing him less as unwitting participant in an agenda of radical secularisation, and more culmination centuries humanistic learning. This article repositions this rehabilitated Simon within contested theological landscape late seventeenth century Catholicism. Drawing upon Simon’s exchanges with Jan...

Through the use of narrative analysis, this research sought to analyze how the Catholic Church, arguably the world’s largest organization, represented itself through the use of its official online communications. Using framing and agenda-setting theories, the study examined the news subsidies of both the Vatican and U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The research revealed that the Catholic Ch...

Abstract Central Europe is often seen as the “exceptional case” in sociology of religion with a high degree secularization, traditional religions process decline, and fundamentalist movements small numbers. However, this may not have always been case. This article elaborates analytical advantages to conceive late 19th century Catholicism early 20th National Socialism two distinctive formations ...

Coping with Defeat: Sunni Islam, Roman Catholicism, and the Modern State. Jonathan Laurence (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021). Pp. 606. $35.00 paper. ISBN: 9780691172125 - Volume 54 Issue 1