Britain’s Last Religious Revival?
Subtitle: Quantifying Belonging, Behaving, and Believing in the Long 1950s
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Published: Feb 25, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9781137512529
Description: Combining historical and social scientific insights and approaches, this is a major contribution to the literature of British secularization, particularly its chronology. The book examines the claims by Callum Brown that the late 1940s and early 1950s in Britain were a period of religious resurgence prior to the onset of revolutionary secularization in the 1960s. These claims are substantially rejected on the basis of the first systematic analysis of a balanced portfolio of quantitative performance measures, published and unpublished, for all faith traditions. They subsume the three dimensions of belonging, behaving, and believing -- the typology increasingly applied to the study of religiosity. It is concluded that the long 1950s accord better with a gradualist interpretation of religious change in modern Britain. An up-to-date historiographical and bibliographical review is also offered. The volume will appeal to social historians of modern Britain, sociologists of religion, clergy, and church growth practitioners. --Provided by publisher.
Notes: Source title: Britain’s Last Religious Revival?: Quantifying Belonging, Behaving, and Believing in the Long 1950s (Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700-2000)