Secularization, the Growth of Militancy and the Spiritual Revolution: Religious Change and Gender Power in Britain, 1901–2001

TY - JOUR

T1 - Secularization, the Growth of Militancy and the Spiritual Revolution:

T2 - Religious Change and Gender Power in Britain, 1901–2001

AU - Brown, Callum G.

N1 - dc.publisher: Wiley-Blackwell The definitive version is available at www3.interscience.wiley.com

PY - 2007/8

Y1 - 2007/8

N2 - The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, and since, have altered perceptions of religious change in Britain in the last century. This article proposes that three key trends encapsulate the most significant developments – secularization, the rise of religious militancy, and the evolution of the New Age. It seeks to refine the periodization and definitions of these, and the interconnections between them, focusing on gender as the major category of analysis, and using the demographic consequences of secularization to highlight the central role of women to British religious change from 1960 to 2000.

AB - The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, and since, have altered perceptions of religious change in Britain in the last century. This article proposes that three key trends encapsulate the most significant developments – secularization, the rise of religious militancy, and the evolution of the New Age. It seeks to refine the periodization and definitions of these, and the interconnections between them, focusing on gender as the major category of analysis, and using the demographic consequences of secularization to highlight the central role of women to British religious change from 1960 to 2000.

U2 - 10.1111/j.1468-2281.2007.00417.x

DO - 10.1111/j.1468-2281.2007.00417.x

M3 - Article

SN - 0950-3471

VL - 80

SP - 393

EP - 418

JO - Historical Research

JF - Historical Research

IS - 209

ER -