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THE STRANGE DEATH OF CHRISTIAN BRITAIN: ANOTHER LOOK AT THE SECULARIZATION DEBATE.
- Source :
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Historical Journal . Dec2003, Vol. 46 Issue 4, p963-976. 14p. - Publication Year :
- 2003
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Abstract
- This article reviews the recent historiography of religion in modern Britain, concentrating on the debate about secularization and the work of Callum Brown in particular, but also with reference to Sarah Williams and Simon Green. It endorses, broadly, the criticisms made by these and other historians of older assumptions ora one-way, 'inevitable' link between modernization and religious decline, but in turn accuses them of attenuating the concept of 'religion' in the modern period to the point where it has lost internal sophistication. It suggests, instead, the compatibility of indices of institutional church decline with the persistence of religious identity and limited church affiliation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *RELIGION
*SECULARIZATION
*CHURCH & state
*HISTORIOGRAPHY
*HISTORY
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0018246X
- Volume :
- 46
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Historical Journal
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 12355144
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X03003364