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Christian ideals in British culture : stories of belief in the twentieth century
- Title
- Christian ideals in British culture : stories of belief in the twentieth century / David Nash.
- Author
- Nash, David (David S.)
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- ©2013
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Details
- Description
- ix, 257 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- This text 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.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-250) and index.
- Contents
- Restoring the balance - religious stories and the secular world -- Pilgrims, seekers, samaritans and saviours -- Saved and transfigured selves - salvation, old and new -- 'Marching as to war' - soldiers and warriors: 'just' and 'unjust' wars -- 'At the going down of the sun' - collective loss and collective remembrance -- 'Our way to eternal joy is to suffer here with Christ' - sickness, pain and dying -- Moments and reactions - religious and secular episodes -- 'And men were saved in a way they are not now' - Anglican decline stories and the myth of the religious golden age.
- Call Number
- JFD 13-4879
- ISBN
- 0230572650
- 9780230572652
- LCCN
- 2013431558
- OCLC
- 825047290
- Author
- Nash, David (David S.)
- Title
- Christian ideals in British culture : stories of belief in the twentieth century / David Nash.
- Publisher
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Copyright Date
- ©2013
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-250) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 13-4879