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quantifying belonging, behaving, and believing in the long 1950s
Combining historical and social scientific insights and approaches, this is a major contribution to the literature of British secularization, particularly its chronology. The book examines the claims by Callum Brown that the late 1940s and early 1950s in Britain were a period of religious resurgence prior to the onset of revolutionary secularization in the 1960s. These claims are substantially rejected on the basis of the first systematic analysis of a balanced portfolio of quantitative performance measures, published and unpublished, for all faith traditions. They subsume the three dimensions of belonging, behaving and believing, the typology increasingly applied to the study of religiosity. It is concluded that the long 1950s accord better with a gradualist interpretation of religious change in modern Britain. An up-to-date historiographical and bibliographical review is also offered. The volume will appeal to social historians of modern Britain, sociologists of religion, clergy and church growth practitioners.
1. Introduction -- Historiography -- Sources -- Defining the decade -- 2. Belonging -- Affiliation -- Membership - general -- Membership - Anglican -- Membership - Catholic -- Membership - Free Church and Presbyterian -- Membership - Sunday schools -- Membership - other religions -- 3. Behaving -- Church attendance - introduction -- Church attendance - church data -- Church attendance - local surveys -- Church attendance - opinion polls -- Religious broadcasting -- Rites of passage -- Private religious practices -- 4. Believing -- Orthodox beliefs -- Heterodox beliefs -- Attitudes to religious issues -- Religious attitudes to secular issues -- 5. Conclusion -- Belonging -- Behaving -- Believing -- Summative assessment.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Histories of the sacred and the secular 1700-2000