The Passing of Protestant England (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521839778)

In The Passing of Protestant England, S. J. D. Green offers an important new account of the causes, courses and consequences of the secularisation of English society. He argues that the critical cultural transformation of modern English society was forged in the agonised abandonment of a long-domesticated Protestant, Christian tradition between 1920 and 1960. Its effects were felt across the nation and amongst all classes. Yet their significance in the evolution of contemporary indigenous identities remains curiously neglected in most mainstream accounts of post-Victorian Britain. Dr Green traces the decline of English ecclesiastical institutions after 1918. He also investigates the eclipse of once-common moral sensibilities during the years up to 1945. Finally, he examines why subsequent efforts to reverse these trends so comprehensively failed. His work will be of enduring interest to modern historians, sociologists of religion, and all those concerned with the future of faith in Britain and beyond.

Author: S. J. D. Green
ISBN-10: 0521839777
ISBN-13: 9780521839778
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/31/2011
Pages: 342
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2011
Books & Culture 05/01/2014 pg. 11