Believing but not belonging anymore: the ever changing face of Christianity
As femininity ceased to be constituted by piety, many women walked away from the churches and thus away from the moral and social injunctions promulgated by Christian culture . . . . The residue of Christian female piety ... was washed away in the cultural revolution of the 1960s
Disenchantment with religion — “Where was God at Auschwitz?” — was one of the consequences of the horrors and devastation of World War II. One famous manifestation of this disenchantment was Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot, first performed in Paris in 1952. The existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre was another (his Existentialism & Humanism was published in 1948).
