Callum G Brown

The Death of Christian Britain

Understanding Secularisation, 1800-2000

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Produktbeschreibung

The Death of Christian Britain uses the latest techniques to offer new formulations of religion and secularisation and explores what it has meant to be 'religious' and 'irreligious' during the last 200 years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9780415471336
• ISBN-10: 0415471338
• Artikelnr.: 26867837

Autorenporträt

Callum Brown is Professor of Religious and Cultural History at the University of Dundee. His publications include Religion and Society in Twentieth-Century Britain (2006) and Postmodernism for Historians (2005).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. The Problem with 'Religious Decline' 3. The Salvation
Economy 4. Angels: Women in Discourse and Narrative 1800-1950 5. Heathens:
Men in Discourse and Narrative 1800-1950 6. Personal Testimony and Religion
1800-1950 7. 'Unimpeachable Witnesses': The Statistics of 'Christian
Progress' 1800-1950 8. The 1960s and Secularisation 9. The End of a Long
Story 10. Postscript: The Mortality of Christendom Reconsidered