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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Field, Clive D.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Series:Histories of the sacred and the secular 1700-2000.
Subjects:
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.