Britain's last religious revival? : 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...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015.
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| Series: | Histories of the sacred and the secular 1700-2000.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.