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Christian Radicalism in the Church of England and the Invention of the British Sixties, 1957-1970 The Hope of a World Transformed

Brewitt-Taylor, Sam
Innbundet / 2018 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780198827009
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
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Oxford University Press
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452 gr
Høyde
224 mm
Bredde
143 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Innbundet
Antall sider
288

Forfatter
Brewitt-Taylor, Sam

Biographical note

Sam Brewitt-Taylor is Darby Fellow in Modern History at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he teaches British and European history since 1815, and researches moral change in mid-twentieth-century Britain. He studied at Oxford, where he gained BA (2007), MSt (2008), and DPhil degrees (2013). His first article, about the idea of 'secularization' in 1960s Britain, won the 2012 Duncan Tanner prize, awarded by Twentieth Century British History. An overview of his work is available from www.sambrewitt-taylor.com.

Christian Radicalism in the Church of England and the Invention of the British Sixties, 1957-1970 The Hope of a World Transformed

Brewitt-Taylor, Sam
Innbundet / 2018 / Engelsk
Brewitt-Taylor, Sam
Innbundet / 2018 / Engelsk
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...this work thus delivers on its objectives and in the process offers a welcome reconceptualization of the British sixties.

Pippa Catterall, Journal of Modern History

There is much to consider in Brewitt-Taylor's arguments and this important work will hopefully spur on new research.

Carmen M. Mangion, Birkbeck, University of London, UK, Journal of Contemporary History

this is a nicely written, intelligent and provocative study that adds significantly to this ongoing debate.

Theology

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The book is meticulously researched. Almost every page has half a dozen foot notes and there is a thirty-page biography. The past cannot be repeated, but would that we could recapture the enthusiasm of the radicals of the sixties with their willingness to challenge religious and political authoritarianism and recapture the hope that people of faith can make a real contribution to a transformed world.

Marcus Braybrooke, Faith and Freedom

an important work, both for those who were around at the time and are willing to have their cherished memories and interpretations challenged, and equally for others in the Church and the academic world who were not around then and are keen to under-stand the Sixties' theological and cultural legacy

Peter Selby, Church Times

Sam Brewitt-Taylor presents an ambitious and bold re-interpretation of two dominant and habitually interconnected narratives of modern British history: the stories of secularisation and the sixties ... It will be of great interest to anyone who thinks about how and why historical change occurs.

David Geiringer, Contemporary British History

This study provides the first postsecular account of the moral revolution that Britain experienced in the 1960s. Beginning from the groundbreaking premise that secularity is not a mere absence, but an invented culture, it argues that a new form of British secularity achieved cultural dominance during an abrupt cultural revolution which occurred in the late 1950s and early 1960s. This moral revolution had little to do with affluence or technology, but was most centrally a cultural response to the terrors of the Cold War, which pitted Christian Britain against the secular Soviet Union. By exploring contemporary prophecies of the inevitable arrival of 'the secular society', Sam Brewitt-Taylor shows that, ironically, British secularity was given decisive initial momentum by theologically radical Christians, who destigmatized the idea of 'modern secularity' and made it available for appropriation by a wide range of Sixties actors. Further than this, radical Christians played a significant contributory role in deciding what kind of secularity Britain's Sixties would adopt, by narrating Britain's moral revolution as globalist, individualist, anti-authoritarian, sexually libertarian, and politically egalitarian. In all these ways, radical Christians played a highly significant role in the early stages of Britain's Sixties.
Les mer
This study shows that Britain's 1960s moral revolution was importantly influenced by currents within British Christianity - not that the Sixties were a popular revolt against the churches, but that revolts against convention within the churches were highly significant in allowing Britain's 'secular revolution' to gain its own momentum.
Les mer
Introduction: Christian radicalism and the invented revolutions of the 1960s 1: World crisis and the making of Christian radicalism, c.1938-1957 2: Christian radicalism and the enactment of secular theology 3: Christian radicalism and the hope of Christian unity 4: Christian radicalism and the hope of transcending 'religion' 5: Christian radicalism and the hope of escaping human authority 6: Christian radicalism and the hope of a revolution of love 7: Christian radicalism and the hope of revolutionary social justice Conclusion: Crisis, eschatology, and the re-invention of British modernity Bibliography
Les mer
...this work thus delivers on its objectives and in the process offers a welcome reconceptualization of the British sixties.
Provides the first detailed account of Anglican 'Christian radicalism' in the 1960s Writes the history of the British Sixties from a postsecular perspective, reinterpreting secularization as a cultural choice rather than Britain's destiny Contextualizes Britain's moral revolution firmly against the backdrop of the Cold War
Les mer
Sam Brewitt-Taylor is Darby Fellow in Modern History at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he teaches British and European history since 1815, and researches moral change in mid-twentieth-century Britain. He studied at Oxford, where he gained BA (2007), MSt (2008), and DPhil degrees (2013). His first article, about the idea of 'secularization' in 1960s Britain, won the 2012 Duncan Tanner prize, awarded by Twentieth Century British History. An overview of his work is available from www.sambrewitt-taylor.com.
Les mer
Provides the first detailed account of Anglican 'Christian radicalism' in the 1960s Writes the history of the British Sixties from a postsecular perspective, reinterpreting secularization as a cultural choice rather than Britain's destiny Contextualizes Britain's moral revolution firmly against the backdrop of the Cold War
Les mer

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...this work thus delivers on its objectives and in the process offers a welcome reconceptualization of the British sixties.

Pippa Catterall, Journal of Modern History

There is much to consider in Brewitt-Taylor's arguments and this important work will hopefully spur on new research.

Carmen M. Mangion, Birkbeck, University of London, UK, Journal of Contemporary History

this is a nicely written, intelligent and provocative study that adds significantly to this ongoing debate.

Theology

Se alle

The book is meticulously researched. Almost every page has half a dozen foot notes and there is a thirty-page biography. The past cannot be repeated, but would that we could recapture the enthusiasm of the radicals of the sixties with their willingness to challenge religious and political authoritarianism and recapture the hope that people of faith can make a real contribution to a transformed world.

Marcus Braybrooke, Faith and Freedom

an important work, both for those who were around at the time and are willing to have their cherished memories and interpretations challenged, and equally for others in the Church and the academic world who were not around then and are keen to under-stand the Sixties' theological and cultural legacy

Peter Selby, Church Times

Sam Brewitt-Taylor presents an ambitious and bold re-interpretation of two dominant and habitually interconnected narratives of modern British history: the stories of secularisation and the sixties ... It will be of great interest to anyone who thinks about how and why historical change occurs.

David Geiringer, Contemporary British History

This study provides the first postsecular account of the moral revolution that Britain experienced in the 1960s. Beginning from the groundbreaking premise that secularity is not a mere absence, but an invented culture, it argues that a new form of British secularity achieved cultural dominance during an abrupt cultural revolution which occurred in the late 1950s and early 1960s. This moral revolution had little to do with affluence or technology, but was most centrally a cultural response to the terrors of the Cold War, which pitted Christian Britain against the secular Soviet Union. By exploring contemporary prophecies of the inevitable arrival of 'the secular society', Sam Brewitt-Taylor shows that, ironically, British secularity was given decisive initial momentum by theologically radical Christians, who destigmatized the idea of 'modern secularity' and made it available for appropriation by a wide range of Sixties actors. Further than this, radical Christians played a significant contributory role in deciding what kind of secularity Britain's Sixties would adopt, by narrating Britain's moral revolution as globalist, individualist, anti-authoritarian, sexually libertarian, and politically egalitarian. In all these ways, radical Christians played a highly significant role in the early stages of Britain's Sixties.
Les mer
This study shows that Britain's 1960s moral revolution was importantly influenced by currents within British Christianity - not that the Sixties were a popular revolt against the churches, but that revolts against convention within the churches were highly significant in allowing Britain's 'secular revolution' to gain its own momentum.
Les mer
Introduction: Christian radicalism and the invented revolutions of the 1960s 1: World crisis and the making of Christian radicalism, c.1938-1957 2: Christian radicalism and the enactment of secular theology 3: Christian radicalism and the hope of Christian unity 4: Christian radicalism and the hope of transcending 'religion' 5: Christian radicalism and the hope of escaping human authority 6: Christian radicalism and the hope of a revolution of love 7: Christian radicalism and the hope of revolutionary social justice Conclusion: Crisis, eschatology, and the re-invention of British modernity Bibliography
Les mer
...this work thus delivers on its objectives and in the process offers a welcome reconceptualization of the British sixties.
Provides the first detailed account of Anglican 'Christian radicalism' in the 1960s Writes the history of the British Sixties from a postsecular perspective, reinterpreting secularization as a cultural choice rather than Britain's destiny Contextualizes Britain's moral revolution firmly against the backdrop of the Cold War
Les mer
Sam Brewitt-Taylor is Darby Fellow in Modern History at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he teaches British and European history since 1815, and researches moral change in mid-twentieth-century Britain. He studied at Oxford, where he gained BA (2007), MSt (2008), and DPhil degrees (2013). His first article, about the idea of 'secularization' in 1960s Britain, won the 2012 Duncan Tanner prize, awarded by Twentieth Century British History. An overview of his work is available from www.sambrewitt-taylor.com.
Les mer
Provides the first detailed account of Anglican 'Christian radicalism' in the 1960s Writes the history of the British Sixties from a postsecular perspective, reinterpreting secularization as a cultural choice rather than Britain's destiny Contextualizes Britain's moral revolution firmly against the backdrop of the Cold War
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198827009
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
452 gr
Høyde
224 mm
Bredde
143 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
288

Forfatter
Brewitt-Taylor, Sam

Biographical note

Sam Brewitt-Taylor is Darby Fellow in Modern History at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he teaches British and European history since 1815, and researches moral change in mid-twentieth-century Britain. He studied at Oxford, where he gained BA (2007), MSt (2008), and DPhil degrees (2013). His first article, about the idea of 'secularization' in 1960s Britain, won the 2012 Duncan Tanner prize, awarded by Twentieth Century British History. An overview of his work is available from www.sambrewitt-taylor.com.

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