By S. J. D. Green
Within the Passing of Protestant England, S. J. D. eco-friendly bargains a huge new account of the explanations, classes and effects of the secularisation of English society. He argues that the severe cultural transformation of recent English society used to be cast within the agonised abandonment of a long-domesticated Protestant, Christian culture among 1920 and 1960. Its results have been felt around the kingdom and among all sessions. but their importance within the evolution of latest indigenous identities continues to be interestingly missed in such a lot mainstream debts of post-Victorian Britain. Dr eco-friendly lines the decline of English ecclesiastical associations after 1918. He additionally investigates the eclipse of once-common ethical sensibilities in the course of the years as much as 1945. ultimately, he examines why next efforts to opposite those traits so comprehensively failed. His paintings should be of putting up with curiosity to fashionable historians, sociologists of faith, and all these fascinated by the way forward for religion in Britain and past.
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They transformed nebulous anti-Catholicism into a more pointedly directed distaste for the Irish. Individual Roman Catholics proved their patriotism, fighting like lions in the trenches. 34 This was true in part because the new 29 30 31 32 33 34 Hastings, A History of English Christianity, pp. 140–1; K. S. Inglis, Churches and the Working Classes in Victorian England (London, 1963), ch. ), Ireland under the Union, II, ch. 22. Hastings, A History of English Christianity, p. 59; see also p. 133. , pp.
1 and 2. Michael P. ’, in J. H. Goldthorpe and C. T. ), The Development of Industrial Society in Ireland (Oxford, 1994), pp. 265–90; R. F. Foster, Luck and the Irish: a Brief History of Change, 1970–2000 (London, 2007), ch. 2; finally, David Sharrock, ‘Catholic Church Faces New Crisis: Ireland is Running Out of Priests’, The Times, 27 February 2008, p. 35. Religion in the twilight zone 33 What all this means is that no account of the social history of religion in Britain between 1920 and 1960, however revisionist by aspiration, can fail to be guided by the prevailing perspective that this era constituted, if not the only instance, then certainly a crucial moment in the decline of indigenous religious life.
Individual Roman Catholics proved their patriotism, fighting like lions in the trenches. 34 This was true in part because the new 29 30 31 32 33 34 Hastings, A History of English Christianity, pp. 140–1; K. S. Inglis, Churches and the Working Classes in Victorian England (London, 1963), ch. ), Ireland under the Union, II, ch. 22. Hastings, A History of English Christianity, p. 59; see also p. 133. , pp. 134–8; for a broader view, see Sheridan Gilley, ‘The Roman Catholic Church in England, 1780–1940’, in Gilley and W.