Bibliograph

The passing of Protestant England, secularisation and social change, c. 1920-1960, S.J.D. Green

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The passing of Protestant England, secularisation and social change, c. 1920-1960, S.J.D. Green

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The passing of Protestant England

Medium

electronic resource

Responsibility statement

S.J.D. Green

Sub title

secularisation and social change, c. 1920-1960

Summary

In this 2010 book S. J. D. Green offers an important account of the causes, courses and consequences of the secularisation of English society. He argues that the critical cultural transformation of modern English society was forged in the agonised abandonment of a long-domesticated Protestant, Christian tradition between 1920 and 1960. Its effects were felt across the nation and among all classes. Yet their significance in the evolution of contemporary indigenous identities remains curiously neglected in most mainstream accounts of post-Victorian Britain. Dr Green traces the decline of English ecclesiastical institutions after 1918. He also investigates the eclipse of once-common moral sensibilities during the years up to 1945. Finally, he examines why subsequent efforts to reverse these trends so comprehensively failed. His work will be of enduring interest to modern historians, sociologists of religion, and all those concerned with the future of faith in Britain and beyond

Target audience

specialized

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