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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      08 October 2009
      30 May 1996
      ISBN:
      9780511522994
      9780521561532
      9780521521208
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511522994
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.771kg, 444 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.65kg, 444 Pages
      • Subjects:
      British History: General Interest, History, Religion, Church History
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    The seemingly inexorable decline of Christianity in Britain has long fascinated historians, sociologists and churchmen. They have also been exasperated by their failure to understand its origins or chart its progress. Sceptical both of traditional accounts and of their more recent rejection by revisionist writers, S. J. D. Green concentrates scholarly attention for the first time on the 'social history of the chapel' in a characteristic industrial-urban setting. He demonstrates just why so many churches were built in late Victorian Britain, who built them, who went to them, and why. He evaluates the 'associational ideal' during its period of greatest success, and explains the causes of its decline. In this way, Religion in the Age of Decline offers a fresh interpretation of the extent and the implications of the decline of religion in twentieth-century Britain.

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    ‘Green’s approach is both fresh and stimulating … at its best in analysing organizational changes within churches … it also provides important insights about developments in their devotional and evangelistic activities … an important and welcome contribution to the historiography which deserves to be widely read.’

    Source: Journal of Religious History

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