This module studies the role of Christianity and the churches in the politics of Western Europe and the USA in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The focus will be on the relationship between Christianity and some of the most influential political ideologies of this period, including Liberalism, Socialism, Fascism and the New Right and on the attitudes of Christians to war and peace and to race, and on the causes of secterian conflict. The approach will be partly theoretical, based on study of key texts, but principally practical, based on case-studies of the relationship between Christianity and politics in specific historical situations, ranging from the links between Liberalism and Nonconfirmity in Victorian Britain to the links between New Right politics and Fundamentalist religion in the United States of Reagan and Bush.