Book Description
This 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 : Grace Davie
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 15,9 MB
Release : 1994-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780631184447
This 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 : Grace Davie
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 21,62 MB
Release : 2015-02-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1405135956
Religion 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 : Linda Woodhead
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 30,41 MB
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1136475001
This 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
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 11,63 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0198280653
This book is intended for scholars and students of Sociology, Religion, Politics, European Studies, and Philosophy.
Author : Gerald Parsons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 39,95 MB
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1136136363
This is an extremely wide-ranging text with good prospects in the A level market
Author : Gerald Parsons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,80 MB
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1135088950
This two-volume set considers the role and significance of religion in post-war Britian, focusing, in particular, upon the closely inter-related themes of the decline of a specifically `Christian Society' and the emergence of a culturally and religiously plural society. Three core questions are examined in depth: to what extent and in what ways has religion remained a significant factor in British culture and society in the period since 1945?, what role does religion play in interpreting and understanding the development of a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic society in post-war Britain?, and to what extent has Britain remained (or ceased to be) a `religious society' during this period. Volume 1: Traditions analyses the history and development of the major religious groups present in Britain in the period since 1945. The major religious traditions examined include the traditional Christian churches, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, Afro-Caribbean religious groups, New Religious Movements, and the `implicit' religion of the `silent majority' who remain detached from organised religion but are by no means simply secular. Volume 2: Controversies explores some of the challenges, tensions and controversies presented by the emergence of an increasingly religiously plural society in Britain since 1945. In particular, it focuses on the impact of religious pluralism on both the Christian churches and other religious traditions, the relationship between communal and national `identities' and religion, women and religion, and the relationship between religion and changing attitudes to personal - and especially sexual - morality.
Author : Jane Garnett
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 30,88 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Addresses the state of religion in the UK from post WWII to the new millennium, with a selection of case studies from experts in the fields of history, sociology and religious studies. This book is organised around the themes of authenticity, generation and virtue. It looks at the impact of Christianity over a range of areas of national life.
Author : Callum G. Brown
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 19,24 MB
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1317873505
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 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 : Peter Howson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 24,32 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Church and state
ISBN : 1783275839
Explores the ways in which the British Religious Affairs Branch aimed to organise religious life in post-war Germany.
Author : John Wolffe
Publisher : Hodder Education
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 39,41 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : 9780340600665
This Open University (OU) reader of sources and comment is designed to document the role and significance of religion in post-war Britain. The reader accompanies two volumes of essays and forms part of an OU undergraduate course starting in 1994.