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Christian Ideals in British Culture: Stories of Belief in the Twentieth Century
David Nash
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Description for Christian Ideals in British Culture: Stories of Belief in the Twentieth Century
Hardcover. This book offers a challenge to conventional histories of secularisation by focusing upon the importance of central religious narratives. These narratives are changed significantly over time, but also to have been invested with importance and meaning by religious individuals and organisations as well as by secular ones. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLW; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444.
This book offers a challenge to conventional histories of secularisation by focusing upon the importance of central religious narratives. These narratives are changed significantly over time, but also to have been invested with importance and meaning by religious individuals and organisations as well as by secular ones.
This book offers a challenge to conventional histories of secularisation by focusing upon the importance of central religious narratives. These narratives are changed significantly over time, but also to have been invested with importance and meaning by religious individuals and organisations as well as by secular ones.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
257
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230572652
SKU
V9780230572652
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About David Nash
David Nash is Professor of History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He has published on the history of blasphemy, the atheist movement in Britain, the history of shame in the nineteenth century and the history of secularisation. He has also given advice on the issue of blasphemy to a number of NGOS and western governments.
Reviews for Christian Ideals in British Culture: Stories of Belief in the Twentieth Century
'... there is no question, to my mind, but that David Nash opens up a number of fascinating lines of inquiry into the metaphysical and moral reasoning which runs through much modern British culture and history.' - Revd Dr Jeremy Morris, King's College, Cambridge, UK 'David Nash's Christian Ideals in British Culture: Stories of Belief in the ... Read more