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Local Churches in New Urban Britain, 1890-1975 - "The Greatest Challenge"? (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Local Churches in New Urban Britain, 1890-1975 - "The Greatest Challenge"? (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700-2000
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"This monograph is an important contribution to our understanding
of the varied fortunes of British Christianity during the twentieth
century." - Rev Dr Andrew Atherstone, Tutor in Church History and
Latimer Research Fellow, Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford, UK
"This book is an important and original work. Anyone interested in
twentieth-century Christianity in Britain will learn much from it.
Grant Masom enables the reader to make sense of the new urban
spaces that became a key part of British life in the last hundred
years." - Rev Dr David Goodhew, Visiting Fellow of St Johns
College, Durham University, UK "This ground-breaking study adds new
depth to our understanding of the importance of religion in English
life and the role of the churches in shaping their own destiny in
the first three-quarters of the twentieth century." - Dr Mark
Smith, Associate Professor in History, University of Oxford, UK
This book contributes to the ongoing academic debates on
secularisation-or the marginalisation of mainstream religious
beliefs and practices-in twentieth-century British society. It
addresses three areas in which the current literature is weak: the
'agency' of organised religion in the outcomes described as
secularisation, rather than explanations based on external
challenges (such as the 'modernisation' of society and thought,
increased affluence, and more leisure choices); a focus on urban
areas transformed by twentieth-century industrialisation and
suburbanisation; and an extended time period to the end of the
third quarter of the twentieth century, allowing proper
consideration of long-term trends alongside short-term upheavals
such as the World Wars, the Great Depression, and the social
changes of the 1960s. Further, the book employs a distinctly
different, highly data-driven approach, considers all religious
movements, and sets its conclusions within the wider social and
cultural context of a representative community.
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