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Religion and the Demographic Revolution: Women and Secularisation in Canada, Ireland, UK and USA since the 1960s
Callum G. Brown
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Description for Religion and the Demographic Revolution: Women and Secularisation in Canada, Ireland, UK and USA since the 1960s
Hardback.
A much-awaited new book by the foremost scholar of secularisation and religion in the modern world. In the 1960s, two great social and cultural changes of the western world began. The first was the rapid decline of Christian religious practice and identity and the rise of the people of 'no religion'. The second was the transformation in women's lives that spawned a demographic revolution in sex, family and work. Both phenomena were sudden though not uniform in their impact. The argument of this book is that the two were intimately connected, triggered byan historic confluence of factors in the ... Read more
A much-awaited new book by the foremost scholar of secularisation and religion in the modern world. In the 1960s, two great social and cultural changes of the western world began. The first was the rapid decline of Christian religious practice and identity and the rise of the people of 'no religion'. The second was the transformation in women's lives that spawned a demographic revolution in sex, family and work. Both phenomena were sudden though not uniform in their impact. The argument of this book is that the two were intimately connected, triggered byan historic confluence of factors in the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843837923
SKU
V9781843837923
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99-15
Reviews for Religion and the Demographic Revolution: Women and Secularisation in Canada, Ireland, UK and USA since the 1960s
Makes an important contribution to our understanding of religion and identity in this period.
HISTORY
An indispensible contribution to the field. The book will go a long way toward helping to bring gender as a crucial category of analysis from the periphery to the center of the secularization debate.
CHURCH HISTORY
Laden with social scientific data, ... Read more
HISTORY
An indispensible contribution to the field. The book will go a long way toward helping to bring gender as a crucial category of analysis from the periphery to the center of the secularization debate.
CHURCH HISTORY
Laden with social scientific data, ... Read more