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Nov 15, 2010 · The modern collapse of Christian culture and practice in Europe is surely one of the greatest of historical changes. At its heart lay a crisis in the 1960s, one that is attracting increasing attention for its role in originating the trends in contemporary religion. 1 Yet, though there is considerable agreement on the significance and even the severity of the impact upon Christianity in that ...
- Callum G. Brown
- 2010
2 days ago · Even if the causation and significance of the crisis is disputed, common to almost all writing on the religious history of the 1960s is a sense that something very important did happen. In the 1950s, the majority of the population were, at least nominally, affiliated to one of the Christian denominations; the numbers of those professing other ...
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The history of Christianity in Britain covers the religious organisations, policies, theology and popular religiosity since ancient history . The Roman Catholic Church was the dominant form of Christianity in Britain from the 6th century through to the Reformation period in the Middle Ages. The ( Anglican) Church of England became the ...
Oct 1, 2007 · The 1960s were a time of explosive religious change. In the Christian churches, it was a time of innovation from the ‘new theology’ and ‘new morality’ of Bishop Robinson, to the evangelicalism of the Charismatic Movement, and of charismatic leaders, such as Pope John XXIII and Martin Luther King. But it was also a time of rapid social ...
- Hugh Mcleod
23. McLeod, Religious Crisis, 141–60, 259. radical elites and legislative change that, building up, led to a cumulative challenge to religious and political conservativism by the late 1960s. But the case must be put that ideas were being led by popular actions.
- Callum G. Brown
- 2010
Jun 15, 2006 · In the 1st Century AD, Britain had its own set of religious icons: Pagan gods of the earth and Roman gods of the sky. Into this superstitious and violent world came a modern, fashionable cult from ...
Despite a certain academic heaviness, with no fewer than fifty-seven pages of notes, bibliography and index, and despite an occasionally disagreeable academic vocabulary, of which more anon, this book has a pleasantly simple knock-down argument, that Christianity in Britain enjoyed a long nineteenth century of prosperity, between 1800 and 1960, and only began to go into terminal decline in the ...
