The Battle for Christian Britain: Sex, Humanists and Secularisation, 1945-1980

ISBN-13: 9781108421225 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 338 str.

Callum G. Brown

Opis

Exposes the mechanisms by which conservative Christianity dominated British culture during 1945–65 and their subsequent collapse.

Recenzje

'… The battle for Christian Britain makes a valuable contribution to questioning and rethinking the ways in which historians research and write about the religious and sexual transformations of the period. Its most significant contribution is likely to be in provoking further discussion and debate on these issues.' Laura Ramsay, Journal of Ecclesiastical History

Spis treści

Part I. The Battle in Context: 1. Introduction; Part II. The Heyday of Christian Vigilance 1945–1965: 2. Moral vigilance; 3. Licensing at the front line: London and Blackpool; 4. Licensing in the provinces: Sheffield, Glasgow and Lewis; 5. Battle at the Beeb part I; Part III. The Sixties Crisis and its Legacy, 1965–1980: 6. The privatisation of moral vigilance; 7. The sixties liberalisation of licensing; 8. The Humanist challenge; 9. Battle at the Beeb part II; Part IV. Conclusion: 10. The birth of civilised Britain.