In the turbulent 1960s, two foundations of the Western world rapidly and unexpectedly collapsed. "Christendom," marked by the dominance of discursive Christianity in public culture, and "Greater Britain," the powerful sentimental and strategic union of Britain and its settler societies, disappeared from the collective mental map with startling speed. Drawing on a wide range of archival materials and an extensive synthesis of global literatures of secularisation, nationalism and imperialism, Evangelicals and the End of Christendom provides a new religious perspective to the end of empire and a fresh national perspective to the end of Christendom.

To illuminate these contemporaneous global shifts, this book takes as a case study the response of Australian evangelical Christian leaders to the cultural and religious crises of the long 1960s. Far from being a narrow national study, this book places its case studies in the context of the latest North American and European scholarship on secularisation, imperialism and evangelicalism. It examines figures such as Billy Graham, Fred Nile and Hans Mol, as well as issues of empire, counter cultural movements and racial and national identity.

This study will be of particular interest to any scholar of Evangelicalism in the twentieth century. It will also be a useful resource for academics looking into the wider impacts of the decline of Christianity and the British Empire in Western civilisation.