Le christianisme gallois entre splendeur encore récente et effondrement rapide

Abstract

Ever since its conversion to Christianity between the 5th and 7th centuries, Wales has developed a remarkably strong and lasting interest in the Faith, which was almost unique in Western Europe. It only began to weaken in the aftermath of WWI, and resisted rather well until the early 1980s. Yet the demise that has followed since then is very strong, even in the European context of a marked decline of churches. The aim of this paper is to try and understand these two strong successive specificities of Wales.

Keywords

• Wales
• Anglicanism
• Methodism
• national identity
• Calvinism
• religion