The Church of England and British Politics since 1900
April 2020
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Edited book
The State, Nationalism and National Identities
February 2017
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The Oxford History of Anglicanism, Volume IV Global Western Anglicanism, C. 1910-Present
The series forms an invaluable reference for both scholars and interested non-specialists. Volume four of The Oxford History of Anglicanism explores Anglicanism from 1910 to present day.
Anglican Evangelicals and Anti-Permissiveness: The Nationwide Festival of Light 1971-1983
September 2014
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Evangelicalism and the Church of England in the Twentieth Century Reform, Resistance and Renewal
An important contribution to the understanding of twentieth-century Anglicanism and evangelicalism
Religion
The Church of England, Race and Multiculturalism 1962-2012
January 2013
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Rescripting Religion in the City: Migration and Religious Identity in the Modern Metropolis
Rescripting Religion in the City explores the role of faith and religious practices as strategies for understanding and negotiating the migratory experience. Leading international scholars draw on case studies of urban settings in the global north and south. Presenting a nuanced understanding of the religious identities of migrants within the 'modern metropolis' this book makes a significant contribution to fields as diverse as twentieth-century immigration history, the sociology of religion and migration studies, as well as historical and urban geography and practical theology.
The Fall and Rise of Church and State? Religious History, Politics and the State in Britain 1961-2011
January 2013
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Studies in Church History -London-
In trying to trace the development of church-state relations in Britain since 1961, one encounters the difficulty that conceptions of both ‘church’ and ‘state’ have changed radically in the half-century since then. This is most obviously true of the state. The British state in 1961 was (outside Stormont-governed Northern Ireland) a unitary state governed from London. It still had colonies, and substantial overseas military commitments. One of its Houses of Parliament had until three years before been (a few bishops and law-lords apart) completely hereditary. The Prime Minister controlled all senior appointments in the established Church of England, and Parliament had the final say on its worship and doctrine. The criminal law still embodied Christian teaching on issues of personal morality.
Thatcherism, Morality and Religion
January 2012
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Making Thatcher’s Britain: Essays in the History of Thatcherism
The Church and the Bomb: Anglicans and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, c1958-1984
January 2012
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God and War: The Church of England and Armed Conflict in the Twentieth Century
The Dog that Didn’t Bark: The Failure of Disestablishment since 1927
July 2011
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The Established Church
This book offers a definitive account of the recent history and theology of the establishment of the Church of England. Written in an accessible style and at the same time rooted in serious scholarship, it offers a range of views and opinions as well as an awareness of contemporary political and social problems. It asks a number of penetrating questions, including the key issue of the extent to which churches, and particularly the Church of England, can be protected from equality legislation, while at the same time expecting to have special political and social privileges. This issue relates to the thorny problems of the reform of the House of Lords, and even to the future of the Monarchy. While there is no effort to impose a particular agenda or solution, the book is nevertheless often provocative and suggests a number of ways forward for establishment. It is intended as a lively contribution to an often-overlooked debate, which has nevertheless become increasingly important in the multi-cultural context of contemporary Britain.
Business & Economics
Law, Morality and Secularisation: The Church of England and the Wolfenden Report 1954-1967
January 2009
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Journal of Ecclesiastical History
The role of the Church of England in the permissive reforms of the 1960s has been neglected. This article examines the Church's part in the campaign for the legalisation of homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s. It shows that the Church of England Moral Welfare Council played a key role in setting up the Wolfenden Committee in 1954, and in later campaigns culminating in the 1967 Sexual Offences Act. In advocating the separation of crime and sin, senior Anglicans were promoting the secularisation of the criminal law, but many church members opposed this reorientation of Church and State. The importance of the Church of England in homosexual law reform suggests that existing narratives of secularisation and the permissive society need to be revised.
The Religion of Englishness: Puritanism, Providentialism, and “National Character,” 1918–1945
October 2007
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Journal of British Studies
Redefining Christian Britain Post-1945 Perspectives
June 2007
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Book
"Redefining Christian Britain" brings together distinguished writers from a number of fields - history, sociology, theology - to reassess the role of Christianity in Britain. This is an area that has been of increasing public debate and interest in recent years, but the debate has followed rather predictable grooves. This book seeks to do something different, by looking at the impact of Christianity over a wide range of areas of national life - religion and the media, religious art, religion in literature, religion in schools, religion and economics and so on. The book has been born out of a frustration at existing writing on religious change in Britain, which has tended to over-concentrate on church attendance figures, rather than look at the more diffuse and dynamic influence of religion on public and private life. "Redefining Christian Britain" will open up new areas of inquiry including religious architecture, church music, debates on sexuality and women's ordination, public rituals like royal weddings, the 'sacred' memory of World War II, multicultural education, and the role of Christian narrative in children's literature. Many of these topics are areas of current debate in the media. Some have been the subject of specific academic studies. But no book, until now, has attempted to bring them all together. The book is organised around three themes: authenticity, generation and virtue. These themes offer a distinct and original conceptual framework within which to address the study of modern Christianity.
History
Citizenship, Community, and the Church of England Liberal Anglican Theories of the State Between the Wars
June 2004
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This book traces the influence of Anglican writers on the political thought of inter-war Britain, and argues that religion continued to exert a powerful influence on political ideas and allegiances in the 1920s and 1930s.
History
Civil Society and the Clerisy: Christian Élites and NationalCulture, c. 1930–1950
November 2003
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Civil Society in British History
Anglicans, the Left and Reconstruction in the Second World War
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Unconfirmed
General introduction to 'The English Parish Church through the centuries: daily life and spirituality, art and architecture, literature and music [Sections 5 & 6: 1689-1945, and 1945-present]'
Media
Introductory Chapter: The Church and Politics in the Twentieth Century
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Church and State: The Church of England and Politics in the Twentieth Century