Given the radical upheavals of the French revolution, the Enlightenment and the rise to prominence of philosophers and scientists a somewhat naïve view on history would be surprised to see religion still an issue in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From Nietzsche to Marx to Darwin it would seem that the mind of the nineteenth century has no need for religion at all. Thankfully, Owen Chadwick’s fascinating and exhaustive piece of historical scholarship provides no such naivety.