Clive D Field

Periodizing Secularization

Religious Allegiance and Attendance in Britain, 1880-1945

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 166mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 643g
• ISBN-13: 9780198848806
• ISBN-10: 0198848803
• Artikelnr.: 57751531

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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