Religion and Society in Twentieth-Century Britain - Callum G. Brown

Religion and Society in Twentieth-Century Britain

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Buch | Softcover
360 Seiten
2006
Longman (Verlag)
978-0-582-47289-1 (ISBN)
46,95 inkl. MwSt
Investigates the role of religion in British life from 600 AD. This is an introduction to religion and religious change in modern Britain. This book provides an account of religion in British society and culture between 1900 and 2000. It displays the diversity and richness of British religion.
During 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 the first 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. The 1960’s saw a sudden and dramatic change, triggered by the cultural revolutions of young people and women. This drift away from faith was followed by 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. With examples from across the U.K.and across the religious traditions, this is the first coherent history of the religious experience of the British people during the last century.   

Callum Brown is professor of religious and cultural history at the University of Dundee. In 2001, he wrote a controversial study called The Death of Christian Britain that argued that Britainhad secularised as a result of sexual liberation and feminism in the 1960s. That book is now studied by historians and theologians around Europe. In Religion and Society in Twentieth Century Britain, Brown provides a rounded study of the place of faith and religious adherence in the lives of the British people, giving the first complete account of religion’s place in the nation’s culture and society.

Introduction
The Faith Society 1900-1914
Trench Religion 1914-1919
Christian Culture in Confusion 1920-1945
Faith in Austerity 1945-1959
The Sixties’ Secular Revolution 1960-1973
The Shaping of Secular Society 1974-2000

  

Erscheint lt. Verlag 22.6.2006
Reihe/Serie Religion, Politics and Society in Britain
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 233 x 158 mm
Gewicht 1010 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Religionsgeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Sozialgeschichte
ISBN-10 0-582-47289-X / 058247289X
ISBN-13 978-0-582-47289-1 / 9780582472891
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