Secularization in the Long 1960s - Numerating Religion in Britain

Zusatztext Through an exploration of church statistics, public opinion surveys, and other quantitative data, he attempts to construct the most comprehensive picture yet of the statistical evidence for religious change between the early 1960s and the late 1970s...That all this data is marshalled for the first time within a single, comprehensive and meticulously footnoted volume is reason enough to recommend this as a must-read book for anyone researching religious change in post-war Britain. However, it does more. ...the book also works well as an account of the changing ways in which individuals and organizations in the long 1960s thought about religion and tried to count it. Even as a specialist on this period I learned a great deal. Informationen zum Autor Clive D. Field is Honorary Research Fellow in the School of History and Cultures at the University of Birmingham and a former Director of Scholarship and Collections at The British Library. He has researched and published extensively on the social history of religion in Britain from 1689 to the present with special reference to religious statistics and the history of Methodism. His previous works include Britain's Last Religious Revival? Quantifying Belonging, Behaving, and Believing in the Long 1950s (2015). He is co-director of British Religion in Numbers, a British Academy Research Project. Klappentext Using empirical research, this study provides a clear guide to the current state of the debate surrounding secularization in Britain during the long 1960s. Zusammenfassung Using empirical research, this study provides a clear guide to the current state of the debate surrounding secularization in Britain during the long 1960s. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Tables List of Abbreviations Categorization of Social Grades 1: Introduction 2: Belonging: Aggregate Measures 3: Belonging: Denominations and Faiths 4: Behaving: Churchgoing 5: Behaving: Other Practices 6: Believing: Beliefs and Experience 7: Believing: Attitudes 8: Institutional Measures 9: Conclusion Select Bibliography Index ...

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• Authors: Clive D. Field, Clive D. (Honorary Research Fellow Field, Field Clive D.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.03.2017
• EAN: 9780198799474
• ISBN: 978-0-19-879947-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, RELIGION / Atheism, RELIGION / Agnosticism, Christianity, History of Religion, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1960 to c 1970, Church history, c 1960 to c 1969, Religious groups: social & cultural aspects, Agnosticism and atheism, Agnosticism & Atheism, Social groups: religious groups and communities