The Death of Christian Britain: Understanding Secularisation, 1800–2000
The Death of Christian Britain: Understanding Secularisation, 1800–2000
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英国基督教之死：理解世俗化，1800-2000
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10.4324/9780203879436
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2009
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Callum G. Brown
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Callum G. Brown
《英国基督教之死》审视了这个国家的核心宗教文化是如何被摧毁的。它挑战了人们普遍持有的观点，即世俗化是一个从工业革命开始的漫长而渐进的过程，相反，它提出世俗化是一场始于 20 世纪 60 年代的灾难性的、突然的文化革命。本书探讨了过去 200 年来“宗教”和“非宗教”的含义。世俗化的概念是由启蒙理性和科学方法创造的，并导致维多利亚时代对统计去教堂的人和不去教堂的人的痴迷，这种痴迷在今天对“危机中的教会”的关注中持续存在。布朗通过将注意力从统计转向媒体来挑战这种方法，证明从 1800 年到 1960 年，人们利用小说、杂志、讣告和传单中的基督教语言、道德和叙事结构，以自传和口述历史的方式讲述自己的生活故事。但这种个人的基督徒身份在“摇摆的六十年代”突然崩溃，新媒体、新的性别角色和道德革命戏剧性地终结了人们对自己过着基督徒生活的观念。英国基督教之死使用最新的技术来提供宗教和世俗化的新表述。通过倾听人们的声音而不是纯粹数人数，它提供了一段新的去基督教化历史，并预测自 20 世纪 60 年代以来英国的经历将象征整个西方基督教的命运。
The Death of Christian Britain examines how the nation's core religious culture has been destroyed. It challenges the generally held view that secularisation has been a long and gradual process beginning with the industrial revolution, and instead proposes that it has been a catastrophic and abrupt cultural revolution starting in the 1960s. This book explores what it has meant to be 'religious' and 'irreligious' during the last 200 years. The concept of secularisation was created by Enlightenment rationality and scientific method, and led to the Victorian obsession with counting churchgoers and non-churchgoers which endures in today's focus on the 'church in crisis'. Brown challenges this approach by shifting attention from statistics to the media, demonstrating that from 1800 to 1960 people drew on novels, magazines, obituaries and tracts for the Christian language, morality and narrative structures with which to tell their own life stories in autobiography and oral history. But this personal Christian identity broke down suddenly in the 'swinging sixties' when new media, new gender roles and the moral revolution dramatically ended people's conception that they lived Christian lives. The Death of Christian Britain uses the latest techniques to offer new formulations of religion and secularisation. By listening to people's voices rather than purely counting heads, it offers a fresh history of de-christianisation, and predicts that the British experience since the 1960s is emblematic of the destiny of the whole of western Christianity.