RT Book
T1 British gods: religion in modern Britain
A1 Bruce, Steve 1954-
LA English
PP Oxford, United Kingdom
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2020
ED First edition
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/173573974X
AB The big picture is well-known: over the last century, religion in Britain has lost power, popularity, and plausibility. Here, Steve Bruce charts the quantifiable changes in religious interest and observance over the last fifty years by returning to a number of towns and villages that were the subject of detailed community studies in the 1950s and 1960s, to see how the status and nature of religion has changed. Drawing on both detailed data on baptism rates, church weddings, church attendance and the like, and on his extensive fieldwork, he considers the broader picture of religion today: the status of the clergy, the churches' attempts to find new roles, links between religion and violence, and the impact of the charismatic movement.0Along the way, Bruce encounters and engages with the contemporary rise of secularism, considering our everyday secular tensions with religion: arguments over moral issues such as abortion and gay rights, the effect of social class on belief, the impact of religion on British politics, and the ways that local social structures strengthen or weaken religion. Analysing the obstacles to any religious revival, he explores how the current stock of religious knowledge is so depleted, religion so0unpopular, and committed believers so scarce that any significant reversal of religion's decline in Britain is unlikely
CN BL980.G7
SN 9780198854111
SN 0198854110
K1 Religion and sociology : Great Britain : History : 20th century
K1 Secularism : Great Britain : History : 20th century
K1 Secularism : Great Britain : History : 21st century
K1 Religion
K1 Religion and sociology
K1 Secularism
K1 History
K1 Great Britain : Religion : 20th century
K1 Great Britain : Religion : 21st century
K1 Great Britain