Secularisation

by Norman, Edward

• ISBN13: 9780826459459
• ISBN10: 0826459455
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-02-28
• Publisher: Continuum

Summary

Secularisation is not a systematic attempt--of the sort which might be made by a social scientist--to describe and identify every feature of a fading religious landscape. It is a landscape, indeed, which was once familiar, and yet which now appears almost unrecognisable to those who have lived within it all their lives. They and many external observers are saddened by the decline of institutional religion in Britain and cannot clearly discern the full nature of the causes. Edward Norman, author of An Anglican Catechism and Out of The Depths, holds to account a number of the fundamental transformations in religious understanding itself which help the reader to grasp the bigger picture of the decline of the Church in Britain.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Humanism	1	(10)
Knowledge	11	(8)
Ignorance	19	(6)
Emotion	25	(8)
Pluralism	33	(8)
Secularity	41	(12)
Materialism	53	(8)
Theology	61	(10)
Morality	71	(8)
Realism	79	(8)
Society	87	(6)
Authority	93	(10)
Politics	103	(8)
Community	111	(8)
Leadership	119	(8)
Priesthood	127	(10)
Ministry	137	(14)
Decline	151	(4)
Truth	155