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Author: Grace Davie
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 1994-12-05
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780631184447
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis important book describes as accurately as possible the religious situation of Great Britain at the end of the twentieth century, and evaluates this evidence within a sociological framework.
Author: Linda Woodhead
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-03-01
Total Pages: 595
ISBN-13: 1136475001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a fully up-to-date and comprehensive guide to religion in Britain since 1945. A team of leading scholars provide a fresh analysis and overview, with a particular focus on diversity and change. They examine: relations between religious and secular beliefs and institutions the evolving role and status of the churches the growth and ‘settlement’ of non-Christian religious communities the spread and diversification of alternative spiritualities religion in welfare, education, media, politics and law theoretical perspectives on religious change. The volume presents the latest research, including results from the largest-ever research initiative on religion in Britain, the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme. Survey chapters are combined with detailed case studies to give both breadth and depth of coverage. The text is accompanied by relevant photographs and a companion website.
Author: Grace Davie
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 0198280653
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is intended for scholars and students of Sociology, Religion, Politics, European Studies, and Philosophy.
Author: Callum G. Brown
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-09-11
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1317873505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the twentieth century, Britain turned from one of the most deeply religious nations of the world into one of the most secularised nations. This book provides a comprehensive account of religion in British society and culture between 1900 and 2000. It traces how Christian Puritanism and respectability framed the people amidst world wars, economic depressions, and social protest, and how until the 1950s religious revivals fostered mass enthusiasm. It then examines the sudden and dramatic changes seen in the 1960’s and the appearance of religious militancy in the 1980s and 1990s. With a focus on the themes of faith cultures, secularisation, religious militancy and the spiritual revolution of the New Age, this book uses people’s own experiences and the stories of the churches to display the diversity and richness of British religion. Suitable for undergraduate students studying modern British history, church history and sociology of religion.
Author: Grace Davie
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2015-02-23
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1405135956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReligion in Britain evaluates and sheds light on the religious situation in twenty-first century Britain; it explores the country's increasing secularity alongside religion's growing presence in public debate, and the impact of this paradox on Britain's society. Describes and explains the religious situation in twenty-first century Britain Based on the highly successful Religion in Britain Since 1945 (Blackwell, 1994) but extensively revised with the majority of the text re-written to reflect the current situation Investigates the paradox of why Britain has become increasingly secular and how religion is increasingly present in public debate compared with 20 years ago Explores the impact this paradox has on churches, faith communities, the law, politics, education, and welfare
Author: Peter Howson
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 1783275839
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the ways in which the British Religious Affairs Branch aimed to organise religious life in post-war Germany.
Author: Callum G. Brown
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-15
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1135115532
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Death of Christian Britain uses the latest techniques to offer new formulations of religion and secularisation and explores what it has meant to be 'religious' and 'irreligious' during the last 200 years. By listening to people's voices rather than purely counting heads, it offers a fresh history of de-christianisation, and predicts that the British experience since the 1960s is emblematic of the destiny of the whole of western Christianity. Challenging the generally held view that secularization has been a long and gradual process beginning with the industrial revolution, it proposes that it has been a catastrophic short term phenomenon starting with the 1960's. Is Christianity in Britain nearing extinction? Is the decline in Britain emblematic of the fate of western Christianity? Topical and controversial, The Death of Christian Britain is a bold and original work that will bring some uncomfortable truths to light.
Author: Jonathan Hollowell
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 0470758171
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a comprehensive overview of Britain's development since the end of the Second World War. It comprises 23 contributions from leading authorities and newer scholars, set in context with a foreword by Raymond Seitz. A comprehensive and fascinating introduction to Britain from the end of the Second World War Draws together the themes that have dominated discussion amongst scholars and media commentators The chapters are set in context with a foreword by Raymond Seitz Covers topics such as foreigh policy, political parties, the media, race relations, women and social change, science and IT, culture, industrial relations, the welfare state, and political and economic issues in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Author: Kevin Hickson
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2019-10-23
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 303027697X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK***Winner of the Political Studies Association Conservatism Studies Group prize 2020*** This book provides a detailed analysis of the evolution of the Conservative Right in Great Britain since 1945. It first explores the movement’s core ideas and highlights points of tension between its different strands. The book then proceeds with a thematically structured discussion. The Conservative Right’s views on the decline and fall of the British Empire, immigration control, European integration, the British constitution, the territorial integrity of the United Kingdom, Britain’s economy, the welfare state, and social morality and social change are all explored. In the concluding chapter, the author evaluates the extent to which the Conservative Right has succeeded in its core objectives since 1945 and addresses how it can best respond to a contemporary Britain in which it instinctively feels uncomfortable. The book is based on extensive elite interviews and archival research and will be of interest to anyone who seeks to place the contemporary Conservative Right in a greater historical context.
Author: Callum G. Brown
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-10-17
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1108421229
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExposes the mechanisms by which conservative Christianity dominated British culture during 1945-65 and their subsequent collapse.
