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Cold War Mary

Ideologies, Politics, and Marian Devotional Culture

2020 || Paperback || Peter Jan Margry || Leuven University Press

One hardly known but fascinating aspect of the Cold War was the use of the holy Virgin Mary as a warrior against atheist ideologies. After the Second World War, there was a remarkable rise in the West of religiously inflected rhetoric against what was characterised as “godless communism”. The leaders of the Roman Catholic Church not only urged their followers to resist socialism, but along with many prominent Catholic laity and activist movements they marshaled the support of Catholics in...

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Material Change

The Impact of Reform and Modernity on Material Religion in North-West Europe, 1780-1920

2022 || Hardcover || Jan De Maeyer e.a. || Leuven University Press

The long nineteenth century (c.1780–c.1920) in Western Europe saw an unprecedented rise in the production and possession of material goods. The material culture diversified and led to a rich variety of expressions. Dovetailing with a process of confessionalisation that manifested itself quite simultaneously, material religion witnessed its heyday in this period; from church buildings to small devotional objects.

The present volume analyses how various types of reform (state, societal, and e...