Passing of Protestant England - Secularisation and Social Change, C.1920-1960

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext An important account of the causes, courses and consequences of the secularisation of modern English society. Zusammenfassung In this important account of the causes! courses and consequences of the secularisation of modern English society! S. J. D. Green argues that the nation's cultural transformation was forged in the agonised abandonment of a long-domesticated Protestant! Christian tradition between 1920 and 1960. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: S. J. D. Green, S. J. D. (All Souls College Green, S.J.D. Green, Green S. J. D.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.12.2010
• EAN: 9780521839778
• ISBN: 978-0-521-83977-8
• No. of pages: 342
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; England, RELIGION / Christianity / Protestant, European History, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, RELIGION / Christianity / History, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Religion, British & Irish history, Protestantism & Protestant Churches, Protestantism and Protestant Churches