British Gods is a comprehensive survey of the state of religious faith in contemporary Britain, analysing how the status and nature of the different religions has changed since the 1950s and 1960s. Considering the challenges religion faces today from secular and social tensions, it offers a prognosis for the future of religion in Britain.
British Gods is a comprehensive survey of the state of religious faith in contemporary Britain, analysing how the status and nature of the different religions has changed since the 1950s and 1960s. Considering the challenges religion faces today from secular and social tensions, it offers a prognosis for the future of religion in Britain.
Steve Bruce has been Professor of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen since 1991. An internationally-known expert on religion and politics, he is a fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Previous Oxford University Press publications include: Secular Beats Spiritual: the Westernization of the Easternization of the West (2017); Secularization: In Defence of an Unfashionable Theory (2013); and Sociology: A Very Short Introduction (2000). His book Scottish Gods: Religion in Modern Scotland 1900-2012 (Edinburgh University Press, 2014), won the Saltire Scottish History Book of the Year Award, 2014.
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Preface 1: The Big House: Elite Patronage of Religion 2: Ties That Bind: Community Cohesion in Scotland and Wales 3: Social Roles of the Clergy: Cumbria and Devon 4: Old Rivals Merge; New Divisions Emerge 5: Modernising the Faith: the Charismatic Movement 6: Migrant Christians and Pentecostalism in London 7: Worktown and Muslims 8: Gods of the Common People: Folk Religion and Superstition 9: Spiritualism, Spirituality, and Social Class 10: Religion and Politics 11: Can the Decline be Reversed?
Preface 1: The Big House: Elite Patronage of Religion 2: Ties That Bind: Community Cohesion in Scotland and Wales 3: Social Roles of the Clergy: Cumbria and Devon 4: Old Rivals Merge; New Divisions Emerge 5: Modernising the Faith: the Charismatic Movement 6: Migrant Christians and Pentecostalism in London 7: Worktown and Muslims 8: Gods of the Common People: Folk Religion and Superstition 9: Spiritualism, Spirituality, and Social Class 10: Religion and Politics 11: Can the Decline be Reversed?
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