Professor Alec Ryrie's Outputs (17)

The World's Reformation: How Protestantism Became a Global Religion (2024)
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Ryrie, A. The World's Reformation: How Protestantism Became a Global Religion. Yale University

A comprehensive history of global Protestant missions covering the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries

The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It (2024)
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Ryrie, A. (in press). The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It. Reaktion Books

This book provides a new account of modern ethics by viewing the subject through the lens of World War II. It argues that postwar society has come to define its notions of good and (especially) evil primarily with reference to Hitler and the Nazis, a... Read More about The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It.

The English Reformation: A Very Brief History (2020)
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Ryrie, A. (2020). The English Reformation: A Very Brief History. SPCK

Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt (2019)
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Ryrie, A. (2019). Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt. Harvard University Press / Harper Collins

Why have Western societies that were once overwhelmingly Christian become so secular? Looking to the feelings and faith of ordinary people, the award-winning author of Protestants Alec Ryrie offers a bold new history of atheism. We think we know the... Read More about Unbelievers: An Emotional History of Doubt.

Protestants: The Radicals who Made the Modern World (2017)
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Ryrie, A. (2017). Protestants: The Radicals who Made the Modern World. William Collins

On the 500th anniversary of Luther’s rebellion, this spectacular global history traces the revolutionary faith that shaped the modern world. Five hundred years ago Protestant Christianity began with one stubborn monk. Today, it includes a billion peo... Read More about Protestants: The Radicals who Made the Modern World.

The Age of Reformation: The Tudor and Stewart Realms 1485-1603 (2017)
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Ryrie, A. (2017). The Age of Reformation: The Tudor and Stewart Realms 1485-1603. (2nd ed.). Routledge

The Age of Reformation charts how religion, politics and social change were always intimately interlinked in the sixteenth century, from the murderous politics of the Tudor court to the building and fragmentation of new religious and social identitie... Read More about The Age of Reformation: The Tudor and Stewart Realms 1485-1603.

Puritanism and Emotion in the Early Modern World (2016)
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Ryrie, A., & Schwanda, T. (Eds.). (2016). Puritanism and Emotion in the Early Modern World. Palgrave

Private and Domestic Devotion in Early Modern Britain (2013)
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Martin, J., & Ryrie, A. (Eds.). (2013). Private and Domestic Devotion in Early Modern Britain. Ashgate Publishing

Being Protestant in Reformation Britain (2013)
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Ryrie, A. (2013). Being Protestant in Reformation Britain. Oxford University Press

The Reformation was about ideas and power, but it was also about real human lives. Alec Ryrie provides the first comprehensive account of what it actually meant to live a Protestant life in England and Scotland between c. 1530-1640, drawing on a rich... Read More about Being Protestant in Reformation Britain.

Worship and the Parish Church in Early Modern Britain (2012)
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Mears, N., & Ryrie, A. (Eds.). (2012). Worship and the Parish Church in Early Modern Britain. Ashgate Publishing

The Age of Reformation: The Tudor and Stewart Realms, 1485-1603 (2009)
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Ryrie, A. (2009). The Age of Reformation: The Tudor and Stewart Realms, 1485-1603. Pearson

The Sorcerer's Tale: Faith and Fraud in Tudor England. (2008)
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Ryrie, A. (2008). The Sorcerer's Tale: Faith and Fraud in Tudor England. Oxford University Press

The Origins of the Scottish Reformation (2006)
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Ryrie, A. (2006). The Origins of the Scottish Reformation. Manchester University Press

The Scottish Reformation of 1560 is one of the most controversial events in Scottish history, and a turning-point in the history of Britain and Europe. Yet its origins remain mysterious, buried under competing Catholic and Protestant versions of the... Read More about The Origins of the Scottish Reformation.

Palgrave Advances in the European Reformations. (2006)
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Ryrie, A. (Ed.). (2006). Palgrave Advances in the European Reformations. Palgrave Macmillan

Moderate Voices in the European Reformation. (2005)
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Racaut, L., & Ryrie, A. (Eds.). (2005). Moderate Voices in the European Reformation. Ashgate Publishing

The Gospel and Henry VIII: Evangelicals in the Early English Reformation (2003)
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Ryrie, A. (2003). The Gospel and Henry VIII: Evangelicals in the Early English Reformation. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.2277/0521823439

During the last decade of Henry VIII’s life, his Protestant subjects struggled to reconcile two loyalties: to their Gospel and to their king. This book tells the story of that struggle and describes how a radicalised English Protestantism emerged fro... Read More about The Gospel and Henry VIII: Evangelicals in the Early English Reformation.

The Beginnings of English Protestantism. (2002)
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Marshall, P., & Ryrie, A. (Eds.). (2002). The Beginnings of English Protestantism. Cambridge University Press