Religion in Britain : a persistent paradox / Grace Davie.
By: Davie, Grace [author.]
Publisher: Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell, 2015Edition: Second editionDescription: xv, 264 pages : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781405135955; 9781405135962Subject(s): Religion and sociology -- Great Britain | Religion and culture -- Great Britain | Religion -- Public opinion | Great Britain -- Religion -- 20th century | Great Britain -- Religion -- 21st century | Great Britain -- Religious life and customsDDC classification: 306.60941 Also issued online.| Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 306.60941 DAV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 015199 |
Browsing House of Lords Library - Palace shelves, Shelving location: Dewey Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
| 306.6 MAC Living with the gods : | 306.6 PAT Who owns religion? : scholars and their publics in the late twentieth century / | 306.6 WAR Secularization and its discontents / | 306.60941 DAV Religion in Britain : | 306.682 BUL Mass exodus : | 306.682415 SCA The best Catholics in the world : the Irish, the Church and the end of a special relationship / | 306.7 LEA Leadership and sexuality : |
First edition published 1994 as Religion in Britain since 1945.
Part I. Preliminaries -- 1. Introduction: a framework for discussion -- 2. Contexts and generations -- 3. Facts and figures -- Part II. Religious legacies -- 4. Cultural heritage, believing without belonging and vicarious religion -- 5. Territory, politics and institutions -- 6. Presence: who can do what for whom? -- Part III. Shifting priorities: from obligation to consumption -- 7. An emerging market: gainers and losers -- 8. Proliferations of the spiritual -- Part IV. Public religion and secular reactions -- 9. Managing diversity -- 10. Religion in public life -- Part V. Thinking theoretically -- 11. Religion and modernity continued
Also issued online.