Secularisation in the Christian World: Essays in Honour of Hugh McLeodCallum G. Brown, Michael Francis Snape Bringing together leading scholars in the social history of religion and the sociology of religion, this book explores what we know about the decline of organized Christianity in Britain, Europe, the United States, Canada and Australia. |
Contents
Implicit Understandings of Religion in Sociological Study | 27 |
Narratives of the Rise and Decline | 41 |
Protestantism Monarchy and the Defence of Christian Britain | 57 |
Towards Secularisation and One Step Back | 75 |
Secularisation or Resacralisation? The Canadian Case 17602000 | 93 |
A Classic Case of DeChristianisation? Religious Change | 119 |
the United States British and Canadian | 135 |
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