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Periodizing Secularization: Religious Allegiance and Attendance in Britain, 1880-1945 - Hardcover

Field, Clive D.

 
9780198848806: Periodizing Secularization: Religious Allegiance and Attendance in Britain, 1880-1945
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0198848803 ISBN 13: 9780198848806
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2019

Synopsis

This is a major empirical study of secularization in Britain between 1880 and 1945, examining two of its more quantifiable performance indicators - religious allegiance and churchgoing. A wide range of primary sources is deployed, enabling religious change to be measured over five micro-periods.

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About the Author

Clive D. Field, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of History and Cultures, University of Birmingham

Clive D. Field, OBE is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of History and Cultures at the University of Birmingham. His career was in academic librarianship in the UK, latterly as Director of Scholarship and Collections at The British Library. He has researched and published extensively on the social history of religion in Britain from the eighteenth century to the present day and is a particular authority on the history of religious statistics and of Methodism. He is co-director of the British Religion in Numbers website, a British Academy Research Project.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0198848803
ISBN 13 
9780198848806
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
330