S. J. D. Green

Passing of Protestant England (eBook, ePUB)

Secularisation and Social Change, c.1920-1960

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book S. J. D. Green offers an important account of the causes, courses and consequences of the secularisation of English society. He argues that the critical cultural transformation of modern English society was forged in the agonised abandonment of a long-domesticated Protestant, Christian tradition between 1920 and 1960. Its effects were felt across the nation and among all classes. Yet their significance in the evolution of contemporary indigenous identities remains curiously neglected in most mainstream accounts of post-Victorian Britain. Dr Green traces the decline of English ecclesiastical institutions after 1918. He also investigates the eclipse of once-common moral sensibilities during the years up to 1945. Finally, he examines why subsequent efforts to reverse these trends so comprehensively failed. His work will be of enduring interest to modern historians, sociologists of religion, and all those concerned with the future of faith in Britain and beyond.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511853272
• Artikelnr.: 53005905

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Outline of the Problem: 1. Towards a social history of religion in
modern Britain: secularisation theory, religious change and the fate of
Protestant England; 2. Religion in the twilight zone: a narrative of
religious decline and religious change in Britain, c.1920-60; Part II.
Disclosures of Decline: 3. The 'soul of England' in an 'age of
disintegration': Dean Inge and the 'trial of the churches' in the wake of
World War I; 4. The strange death of Puritan England; 5. Social science and
the discovery of a post-Protestant people: Rowntree's surveys of York and
their other legacy; Part III. Resistance, Revival and Resignation: 6. The
1944 Education Act: a church-state perspective; 7. Was there an English
religious revival in the 1950s?; 8. Slouching towards a secular society:
expert analysis and lay opinion in the early 1960s; Conclusion: the passing
of Protestant England.