By Clive D. Field

ISBN-10: 0198799470

ISBN-13: 9780198799474

Secularization within the lengthy Sixties: Numerating faith in Britain presents a massive empirical contribution to the literature of secularization. It strikes past the now mostly sterile and theoretical debates concerning the validity of the secularization thesis or paradigm. Combining historic and social clinical views, Clive D. box makes use of a variety of quantitative resources to probe the level and velocity of non secular switch in Britain through the long
1960s. ordinarily, facts is gifted for the years 1955-80, with specific cognizance to the methodological and different demanding situations posed by way of every one resource type.

Following an introductory bankruptcy, which stories the historiography, introduces the assets, and defines the chronological and different parameters, box presents proof for all significant aspects of non secular belonging, behaving, and believing, in addition to for institutional church measures. The paintings engages with, and mostly refutes, Callum G. Brown's influential statement that Britain skilled 'revolutionary' secularization within the Sixties, which used to be hugely gendered in nature, and with 1963 the major
tipping-point. as an alternative, a extra nuanced photo emerges with a few spiritual signs in difficulty, others carrying on with on an present downward trajectory, and but others ultimate sturdy. development on prior study by means of the writer and different students, and rejecting contemporary proponents of
counter-secularization, the lengthy Nineteen Sixties are eventually positioned in the context of a longstanding gradualist, and nonetheless ongoing, strategy of secularization in Britain.

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