UID:
almahu_9947414934502882
Format:
1 online resource (xv, 426 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511522994 (ebook)
Content:
The seemingly inexorable decline of Christianity in Britain has long fascinated historians, sociologists and churchmen. They have also been exasperated by their failure to understand its origins or chart its progress. Sceptical both of traditional accounts and of their more recent rejection by revisionist writers, S. J. D. Green concentrates scholarly attention for the first time on the 'social history of the chapel' in a characteristic industrial-urban setting. He demonstrates just why so many churches were built in late Victorian Britain, who built them, who went to them, and why. He evaluates the 'associational ideal' during its period of greatest success, and explains the causes of its decline. In this way, Religion in the Age of Decline offers a fresh interpretation of the extent and the implications of the decline of religion in twentieth-century Britain.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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The environment and its constraints: economic revolution, social transformation and spatial evolution --
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The many houses of God: churches, church building and church extension in the industrial town --
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The burden shared: the changing political economy of religious organisations --
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The unfolding of the associational ideal: auxiliary organisations and ambitious societies --
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Learning advanced: the Sunday school movement, pedagogical innovation and the theory of juvenile religious development --
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Salvation extended: conversion, revivals and the unending mission to the people --
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Worship exalted and experience eclipsed: liturgical orderliness, dutiful observance and the making of a modern Christian witness --
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Christianity within and beyond the churches: the pattern of the devotion and the authenticity of expression.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521561532
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511522994
