A rich analysis of how issues related to gender and sexuality transformed the West German Catholic Church

This book offers a fresh interpretation of the connection between the West German Catholic Church and post-1950s political debates on women's reproductive right

The book introduces a theoretical framework to understand the role of religious leaders in conflict transformation and peacebuilding.

The battle for legal contraception challenged key tenets of Irish identity: Catholicism, large families, traditional gender roles, and sexual puritanism. It is

Writing from a variety of contexts, the contributors to this volume describe the ways that conflict and their efforts to engage it constructively shape their wo