From the Book - First Edition.
Part I. Revolution and revival, 1789-1870
Revolution: in France and around the world
Revival: devotions, miracles, and the papacy
Democracy: how Catholics fostered and inhibited democratic revolutions
Triumph: 1848, Vatican I and the consolidation of the Catholic revival
Part II. The milieu and its discontents, 1870-1962
Milieu: why nationalists attacked Catholics and how Catholics responded
Empire: missionaries, converts, and imperialism
Nation: a Catholic nationalism?
Crisis: the politics of the 1930s
Ressourcement: opening the milieu
Decolonization: a Catholic global south
Part III. Vatican II and its aftermath, 1962-2021
Vatican II: a church transformed
Liberation: Freedom and human rights in the 1970s
Exodus: sex, gender, and turmoil
Charisma: John Paul II and the end of the Cold War
Sexual abuse (and its cover-up).