Prof. Hugh McLeod

Emeritus Professor of Church History at the University of Birmingham
  • University

    University of Birmingham
    Birmingham B15 2TT

  • Other activities
    • Fellow of the British Academy 
    • Editorial Board of Journal of Ecclesiastical History
    • International Advisory Board, Centrum für Religion und Moderne, Universität Münster
  • Research focus in the field of religious and church history
    • Social history of religion in western Europe and the USA in the 19th and 20th centuries
  • Further research focuses
    • History of Sport
  • Selected publications in the field of religious and church history
    • The Religious Crisis of the 1960s (Oxford University Press 2007)
    • Secularization and Religious Innovation in the North Atlantic World (edited with David Hempton, Oxford UP 2017)
    • ‘Religions and the Church: The New Era of Modernity,’ in J.H.Schjørring and N.A. Hjelm (eds.) History of Global Christianity, volume 2 (Brill 2017), pp.1-67.
  • Further publications
    • ‘Religion, Politics and Sport in Western Europe, c.1870-1939’ in Stewart J.Brown and others (eds.), Religion, Identity and Conflict in Britain (Ashgate 2013), pp 195-212