Counting Religion in Britain, 1970-2020: Secularization in Statistical Context [Hardcover]

Counting Religion in Britain, 1970-2020, the fourth volume in the author's chronological history of British secularization, sheds significant new light on the nature, scale, and timing of religious change in Britain during the past half-century, with particular reference to quantitative sources.Counting Religion in Britain, 1970-2020, the fourth volume in the author's chronological history of British secularization, sheds significant new light on the nature, scale, and timing of religious change in Britain during the past half-century, with particular reference to quantitative sources. Adopting a key performance indicators approach, twenty-one facets of personal religious belonging, behaving, and believing are examined, offering a much wider range of lenses through which the health of religion can be viewed and appraised than most contemporary scholarship. Summative analysis of these indicators, by means of a secularization dashboard, leads to a reaffirmation of the validity of secularization (in its descriptive sense) as the dominant narrative and direction of travel since 1970, while acknowledging that it is an incomplete process and without endorsing all aspects of the paradigmatic expression of secularization as a by-product of modernization.1. Historiography2. Sources3. Belonging Part I: Saliency and Affiliation4. Belonging Part II: Membership5. Behaving Part I: Attendance and Rites of Passage6. Behaving Part II: Other Practices and Observances7. Behaving Part III: Religious Socialization8. Believing Part I: Beliefs and Experience9. Believing Part II: Religious Attitudes10. Believing Part III: Religious Prejudice11. ConclusionAppendix: Reference TablesClive D. Field,Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of History and Cultures, University of Birmingham, UKREPLACELESSTHANbREPLACEGREATERTHANClive D. FieldREPLACELESSTHAN/bREPLACEGREATERTHAN is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of History and Cultures at the University of Bil#_