Redefining Christian Britain : post-1945 perspectives / edited by Jane Garnett ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Garnett, Jane.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity--Great Britain--20th century.

Christianity.

Christianity--Great Britain--21st century.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xii, 308 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : SCM Press, 2007.

Summary:

Re-defining Christian Britain brings together distinguished writers from a number of fields history, sociology, theology - to reassess the role of Christianity in Britain. This is an area that has been of increasing public debate and interest in recent years, but the debate has followed rather predictable grooves. This book seeks to do something different, by looking at the impact of Christianity over a wide range of areas of national life religion and the media, religious art, religion in literature, religion in schools, religion and economics and so on.

Contents:

'The prayer in the syntax'?: the Roman Missal, the Book of Common Prayer and changes in liturgical language, 1945-80 / Alana Harris

Expressions of authenticity: music for worship / Ian Jones with Peter Webster

Reconceiving the congregation as a source of authenticity / Mathew Guest

Performance, priesthood, and homosexuality / William Whyte

Theology in the public arena: the case of South Bank religion / Mark D. Chapman

A papal funeral and a royal wedding: reconfiguring religion in the twenty-first century / Grace Davie

The Jackie generation: girls' magazines, pop music, and the discourse revolution / William Whyte

'The long, long night is over': the campaign for nuclear disarmament, 'generation' and the politics of religion (1957-1964) / Holder Nehring

Internet generation: computer-mediated communication and Christianity / Jane Garnett

Art and religion in contemporary Britain / George Pattison

Dark materials?: Philip Pullman and children's literature / Bernice Martin

The architecture of belief / William Whyte

Ambivalence over virtue / Harriet Harris

Is English education secular? / Ashley Rogers Berner

Christianity and economics: the conversation in Zacchaeus' house / Rufus Black

Liberalism, religion and the public sphere / Raymond Plant

Public intellectuals and the media / Matthew Grimley

The evolution of national and religious identity in contemporary Ireland / Robert Tobin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 294-298) and index.

ISBN:

9780334040927

0334040922

OCLC:

156792669