The Death of Christian Britain: Understanding Secularisation 1800-2000 (Christianity and Society in the Modern World) - Softcover

Brown, Callum G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415241847 ISBN 13: 9780415241847

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

The Death of Christian Britain uses the latest techniques to offer new formulations of religion and secularisation and explores what it has meant to be 'religious' and 'irreligious' during the last 200 years.

By listening to people's voices rather than purely counting heads, it offers a fresh history of de-christianisation, and predicts that the British experience since the 1960s is emblematic of the destiny of the whole of western Christianity.

Challenging the generally held view that secularization has been a long and gradual process beginning with the industrial revolution, it proposes that it has been a catastrophic short term phenomenon starting with the 1960's.

Is Christianity in Britain nearing extinction? Is the decline in Britain emblematic of the fate of western Christianity? Topical and controversial, The Death of Christian Britain is a bold and original work that will bring some uncomfortable truths to light.

About this title

About the Author

Callum G. Brown is Reader in History and co-Director of the Scottish Oral History Centre at the University of Strathclyde.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415241847
• ISBN 13: 9780415241847
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272