Periodizing Secularization - Religious Allegiance and Attendance in Britain, 1880-1945

This is a major empirical study of secularization in Britain between 1880 and 1945, examining two of its more quantifiable performance indicators - religious allegiance and churchgoing. A wide range of primary sources is deployed, enabling religious change to be measured over five micro-periods.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction - Historiography and Sources


• 2: Before 1880 - The Long Prelude


• 3: 1880-1901 - The fin de siècle, Part 1, Allegiance


• 4: 1880-1901 - The fin de siècle, Part 2, Churchgoing


• 5: 1901-14 - 'The Faith Society'?


• 6: 1914-18 - Keeping the Spiritual Home Fires Burning


• 7: 1918-39 - The Depression Years


• 8: 1939-45 - Puzzled People?


• 9: Conclusion - Periodizing Secularization

About the author

Clive D. Field, OBE is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of History and Cultures at the University of Birmingham. His career was 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.

Summary

This is a major empirical study of secularization in Britain between 1880 and 1945, examining two of its more quantifiable performance indicators - religious allegiance and churchgoing. A wide range of primary sources is deployed, enabling religious change to be measured over five micro-periods.

Product details

• Authors: Clive D. Field, Clive D. (Honorary Senior Research Fellow Field, Field Clive D.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.11.2019
• EAN: 9780198848806
• ISBN: 978-0-19-884880-6
• No. of pages: 330
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Religion / Christian Church / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Agnosticism, History of Religion, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social research & statistics, Social research and statistics