The Passing of Protestant England

Secularisation and Social Change, c.1920-1960

AvS. J. D. Green

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-12-09
Mått:159 x 235 x 21 mm
Vikt:680 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:342
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521839778

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S. J. D. Green is Extraordinary Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University, and Reader in Modern British History at the University of Leeds.

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Review of the hardback: 'A powerful, provocative and pessimistic account that will compel ecclesiastical historians to revisit some of their views about the viability of twentieth-century Protestantism.' Michael Bentley, Professor of Modern History, University of St Andrews

Innehållsförteckning

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.