Converts: From Oscar Wilde to Muriel Spark, Why So Many Became Catholic in the 20th Century - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Yale University PressISBN-13:9780300266078ISBN-10:300266073UPC:9780300266078Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Social History, EuropeBook Topic:Great BritainProduct ID:SC7CXAGB33
Converts: From Oscar Wilde to Muriel Spark, Why So Many Became Catholic in the 20th Century
Why did Catholicism attract so many unlikely converts in Britain during the twentieth century? The twentieth century is understood as an era of growing, inexorable secularism, yet in Britain between the 1890s and the 1960s there was a marked turn to Rome. In the first half of the century, Catholicism became an intellectual and spiritual fashion attracting more than half a million converts,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Yale University PressISBN-13:9780300266078ISBN-10:300266073UPC:9780300266078Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Social History, EuropeBook Topic:Great BritainProduct ID:SC7CXAGB33
Melanie McDonagh is a journalist who has written extensively about religion and ideas for the Spectator, The Times, and the Daily Telegraph. She is writer at large for the Evening Standard and leader writer for the Catholic Herald. She has a doctorate in history from the University of Cambridge.
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