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Counting Religion in Britain, 1970-2020, the fourth volume in the author's chronological history of British secularization, sheds significant new light on the nature, scale, and timing of religious change in Britain during the past half-century, with particular reference to quantitative sources.
List of contents
- 1: Historiography
- 2: Sources
- 3: Belonging Part I: Saliency and Affiliation
- 4: Belonging Part II: Membership
- 5: Behaving Part I: Attendance and Rites of Passage
- 6: Behaving Part II: Other Practices and Observances
- 7: Behaving Part III: Religious Socialization
- 8: Believing Part I: Beliefs and Experience
- 9: Believing Part II: Religious Attitudes
- 10: Believing Part III: Religious Prejudice
- 11: Conclusion
- Appendix: Reference Tables
About the author
Clive D. Field is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of History and Cultures at the University of Birmingham. An Oxford history graduate, his career was spent in academic librarianship in the UK, latterly as Director of Scholarship and Collections at The British Library. He has researched and published extensively on the social history of religion in Britain from the eighteenth century to the present day and is a particular authority on the history of religious statistics and of Methodism. He is co-director of the British Religion in Numbers website, a British Academy Research Project.
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Counting Religion in Britain, 1970-2020, the fourth volume in the author's chronological history of British secularization, sheds significant new light on the nature, scale, and timing of religious change in Britain during the past half-century, with particular reference to quantitative sources.
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The book will remain an essential point of reference for anyone interested in British religion in these years.
