G Davies
Biographic Data
| ID | 7675 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Davies |
| GIVEN NAMES | G |
| FAMILY NAME | Davies |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIES G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9232-3223 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 63 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 299 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 63 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1920 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
A Roman cemetery at Waterdale, Doncaster
Revisiting Secularization in Light of Growing Diversity
This article brings together two rather different trends in the religious life of twenty-first century Europe. On the one hand, secularization continues—faster in some places than others and with varying implications for the society in question. On the other, Europe—and especially western Europe—is becoming increasingly diverse, an equally inexorable development brought about by immigration. Is it possible to reconcile the two, keeping in mind th…
In memoriam James A. Beckford (1942-2022)
James A. Beckford All of us who work in the sociology of religion – and indeed many beyond – were taken aback to learn of the death of James A. Beckford, Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) and Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. Jim, as he was known to friends and colleagues alike, was a distinguished sociologist, who sought to understand better the place of religion in human societies. He was in addition an exemplary c…
The role of religious diversity in social progress
This article brings together the notions of religious diversity and social progress and argues, against the sceptics, that the former can – and indeed must – contribute positively to the latter. To do this, it builds on to a major initiative in which the author had co-responsibility for the material on religion. This was the International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP) which assessed state-of-the-art knowledge that bears on social progress acros…
Christianity in the Twentieth Century
I emerge from reading this book richer in every way. I have learned a great deal, been stimulated to think deeply about the issues that it raises, and have enjoyed the experience immensely. Brian Stanley’s account of Christianity in the twentieth century is innovative and informative in equal measure. It sets aside conventional approaches, by which I mean geographical, confessional or chronological accounts, and opts instead to cover the ground t…
The Lincoln Letters
On Friday 2 nd September 2016, The Guardian published an online article entitled ‘Bishop of Grantham first C of E bishop to declare he is in a gay relationship.’ In response, a large quantity of correspondence was sent to the Bishop from members of the public, the vast majority expressing support. In this paper, we set the empirical data contained in the letters themselves within a context of continuing change in both society and the Church of En…
Religions and Social Progress
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Religion in Secular Society
This book is a timely re-issue of Bryan Wilson’s celebrated Religion in a Secular Society, first published in 1966. It has been edited by Steve Bruce, who contributes an introduction to the new edition and two appendices—the first on “Criticisms of the Secularization Thesis,” and the second (entitled “Fifty Years On”) on recent data on religion and belief in Britain and the United States. The subtext of both appendices is clear: the purpose is to…
Religion and Welfare in Europe
This book compares regional conceptions and variations of welfare in relation to national religious traditions across key parts of Europe. Using comparative case studies, the book examines the transition from research to practical policy recommendations, highlighting the similarities and differences between selected European countries.
Secularization
Secularization denotes the process by which different societies become more secular at various (identifiable) stages of their development. It is, and always has been, a complex term. The reasons for this complexity include questions of definition, data, method, timing, context, and causality. Different schools of thought have emerged in the secularization debate that reflect continuing change in the modern world order. The notion of the postsecul…
Religion, Territory, and Choice
This core of this chapter describes and explains a paradox in the religious life of modern Europe: without doubt, Europe is more secular than it used to be, but in terms of public debate, religion is rising rather than falling in significance. The factors that lie behind this seeming contradiction are explored both singly and together. They include deeply embedded cultural factors, the shifts in the historic churches, new forms of religious life,…
Religion and Welfare in Europe
Sociology of Religion
The discipline of sociology is about pattern. More specifically, and in common with other social sciences, it is concerned both with identifying and with explaining the nonrandom ways that individuals, communities, and societies order their lives. The sociology of religion aims to discover the patterns of individual and social living associated with religion in all its diverse forms. It is not concerned with the competing truth claims made by rel…
Religious Literacy in Policy and Practice
This valuable book is the first to bring together theory and policy with analysis and expertise on practices in key areas of the public realm to explore what religious literacy is, why it is needed and what might be done about it. It makes the case for a public realm which is well equipped to engage with the plurality and pervasiveness of religion and belief, whatever the individual's own stance. It is aimed at academics, policy-makers and practi…
European Religion from the Atlantic to the Black Sea
Women's Religiosity
The military chaplain
This article looks at the ambiguities in the role of the military chaplain from three points of view. The first considers the nature of the constituency within which the chaplain ministers, paying particular attention to the degree – or otherwise – of secularisation and the reasons for this. The second examines the role of the chaplain in relation to the two institutions which he or she serves (i.e. church and state) and the tensions that emerge …
Religion in Britain
Religion in Britain evaluates and sheds light on the religious situation in twenty-first century Britain; it explores the country’s increasing secularity alongside religion’s growing presence in public debate, and the impact of this paradox on Britain’s society. Describes and explains the religious situation in twenty-first century Britain Based on the highly successful Religion in Britain Since 1945 (Blackwell, 1994) but extensively revised with…
The promise and problems of video diaries
The purpose of this paper was to further explore the use of video diaries as a research method. Specifically, the principal objective was to detail and deconstruct the use of video diaries in relation to some of the claims made on their behalf, particularly those related to participant voice, empowerment and spontaneity. The paper is presented through the illustration of a longitudinal case study into undergraduate sports coaching students’ learn…
Studying Religion In The Nordic Countries
Welfare and religion in Europe
This article considers the persistent links between religion and welfare across Europe. It does so by drawing on an extensive body of comparative material brought together by the Uppsala Religion and Society Research Centre. A central question is addressed: why is it that the churches are doing more than they used to as agents of welfare despite the fact that Europe itself is becoming more rather than less secular? The findings reveal the continu…
Keith Breckenridge. Biometric State
For scholars provoked by Theodore Porter’s ideas about government statistics and public trust, and for those of us inspired by Alain Desrosières’s writings on the power of large numbers to create political and conceptual spaces of equivalence, Keith Breckenridge’s Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present must count as essential reading. Based on exhaustive research with unpublish…
Poverty Knowledge in South Africa
Poverty is South Africa's greatest challenge. But what is 'poverty'? How can it be measured? And how can it be reduced if not eliminated? In South Africa, human science knowledge about the cost of living grew out of colonialism, industrialization, apartheid and civil resistance campaigns, which makes this knowledge far from neutral or apolitical. South Africans have used the Poverty Datum Line (PDL), Gini coefficients and other poverty thresholds…
The Sociological Study of Religion
The Sociological Study of Religion
This chapter is divided into three main sections. The first reflects briefly on the early days of the sociology of religion in Britain recognising that this story is not so very different from that of sociology more generally. If you paid attention to the sociological classics, you paid attention to religion. Certain points are, however, worth noting. These include language issues: when were the classics translated into English, and why? Language…
Religion in Britain
Religion in Britain evaluates and sheds light on the religious situation in twenty-first century Britain; it explores the country’s increasing secularity alongside religion’s growing presence in public debate, and the impact of this paradox on Britain’s society. Describes and explains the religious situation in twenty-first century Britain Based on the highly successful Religion in Britain Since 1945 (Blackwell, 1994) but extensively revised with…
Vicarious Religion
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A short afterword
Three of the articles that precede this afterword are about Britain (more specifically about London). This means that their narratives unfold in a society in which the dominant religion for more th
Praying Alone? Church-Going in Britain and Social Capital
This article responds to Bruce's reluctance to consider the decline in church-going in Britain in relation to wider changes in social behaviour, more especially the unwillingness of increasing sections of the population to participate in voluntary activity or civic engagement of any kind. It covers two points in particular: the first relates to the Putnam thesis and the particular place of religion in this; the second considers in more detail the…
Handbook of the Sociology of Religion
This Handbook showcases research and thinking in the sociology of religion. The contributors, all active writers and researchers in the area, provide original chapters focusing on select aspects of their own engagement with the field. Aimed at students and scholars who want to know more about the sociology of religion, this handbook also provides a resource for sociologists in general by integrating broader questions of sociology (e.g. demography…
From Obligation to Consumption
The following article is concerned with the changing nature of religion in Northern Europe. It considers first the concepts of "believing without belonging" and "vicarious religion," pointing out the limitations of each and drawing extensively on previously published work. The following section discusses in more detail a shift that is currently taking place—that is from forms of religion that are imposed or inherited to forms of religion that are…
The Religious Factor in the Emergence of Europe as a Global Region
Cet article pose la question des contours de l'Europe au dela de la seule complexite geographique. Les facteurs culturels et religieux sont analyses dans la double perspective historique et socio-economique. A cet egard, les bouleversements survenus a l'Est remettent en question les definitions en vigueur depuis l'apres-guerre. Le role important joue au cours des siecles par le christianisme dans la constitution de l'Europe n'est plus le meme auj…
A European Perspective on Religion and Welfare
This article places the British material on religion and social policy in a comparative perspective. In order to do so, it introduces a recently completed project on welfare and religion in eight European societies, entitled ‘Welfare and Religion in a European Perspective’. Theoretically it draws on the work of two key thinkers: Gøsta Esping-Andersen and David Martin. The third section elaborates the argument: all West European societies are face…
Religion and old age
The interconnections between religion and old age are complex; the more so given that the concept of age itself has – for a large part of human history – been determined by religious understandings of life. In traditional societies, religion played a crucial part in structuring the transitions between one stage of the life and the next and in defining maturity and fulfilment. And up to a point it still does: in Western societies at the turn of th…
Religion in Modern Europe
Journal Article Religion in modern Europe: a memory mutates, Grace Davie New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, 218 pp. $60.00 (cloth), $27.95 (paper) Get access Lina Molokotos-Liederman Lina Molokotos-Liederman E.P.H.E/G.S.R.L, Paris, France Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 63, Issue 3, Fall 2002, Pages 392–393, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712478 Published: 01 October 2002
Excavation of Iron Age Burials at Corran, Boreray, Outer Hebrides
Reports an archaeological recording of an area of eroding dunes on the Isle of Boreray, North Uist. Several structures were visible in section including a probable house, two cists and the partial remains of a small corbelled structure or cell. The cists and corbelled structure were fully excavated. One cist was a long cist containing a flexed inhumation, the other was a short cist containing a crouched inhumation. The skeletal remains were very …
The Militia in 1685
Macpherson and the Nairne Papers
Macpherson and the Nairne Papers Get access G. DAVIES G. DAVIES Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XXXV, Issue CXXXIX, July 1920, Pages 367–376, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XXXV.CXXXIX.367 Published: 01 July 1920
The Militia in 1685
Believing without Belonging
Les statistiques concernant l'appartenance aux institutions religieuses et celles qui, d'autre part, sont relatives aux modeles de croyance offrent deux indicateurs distincts, mais lies, de la religiosite. Le modele britannique de la fin du XXe s. presente un net desequilibre entre la baisse de l'appartenance et celle, beaucoup plus lente, de la croyance. L'A. examine differents parametres : l'âge, la religion de la classe ouvriere
‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’
Liverpool is a unique city in many respects. Few would dispute that its economic and political vicissitudes, high-profile religiosity and cultural richness run counter to the mainstream in contemporary Britain. A further point is, however, important: these seemingly diverse aspects of Liverpool’s particularity are closely related to each other, a fact that will underpin the central argument of this chapter. It is, for example, essential to grasp …
Believing without Belonging. A Liverpool Case Study / Croyance sans appartenance. Le cas de Liverpool
Davie Grace. Believing without Belonging. A Liverpool Case Study / Croyance sans appartenance. Le cas de Liverpool.. In: Archives de sciences sociales des religions, n°81, 1993. pp. 79-89
The Religious Factor in the Emergence of Europe as a Global Region
Cet article pose la question des contours de l'Europe au dela de la seule complexite geographique. Les facteurs culturels et religieux sont analyses dans la double perspective historique et socio-economique. A cet egard, les bouleversements survenus a l'Est remettent en question les definitions en vigueur depuis l'apres-guerre. Le role important joue au cours des siecles par le christianisme dans la constitution de l'Europe n'est plus le meme auj…
Jean Mercier, Des femmes pour le royaume de Dieu, Paris, Albin Michel, 1994, 327 p
La parution de ce livre a coïncidé exactement avec les premières ordinations de femmes-prêtres dans l'Église d'Angleterre en mars 1994. L'événement et le livre ont produit un certain émoi dans la presse française et cela à juste titre car un événement trés important avait eu lieu en effet. La décision d'ordonner des femmes à la prêtrise prise par l'Église Mère de la Communion anglicane a eu - et continuera à avoir - des répercussions bien au delà…
Religion and old age
The interconnections between religion and old age are complex; the more so given that the concept of age itself has – for a large part of human history – been determined by religious understandings of life. In traditional societies, religion played a crucial part in structuring the transitions between one stage of the life and the next and in defining maturity and fulfilment. And up to a point it still does: in Western societies at the turn of th…
Identités religieuses en Europe
Religion in Modern Europe
Religion in Modern Europe examines religion as a form of collective memory. This is a memory held in place by Europe’s institutional churches, educational systems, and the mass media — all of which are themselves responding to rapid social and economic change. The book also examines the increasing diversity of Europe’s religious life
Religion in Modern Britain
This article starts with a discussion of two books published in the mid-1990s; these are publications that provide a benchmark for later comparisons. Some subsequent `episodes' in the life of modern Britain are then considered, all of which throw light on the religious situation in this country and its likely futures. The empirical data that emerge from these case studies provide a framework for a discussion of (a) increasing religious pluralism,…
Religion in Modern Britain
This article starts with a discussion of two books published in the mid-1990s; these are publications that provide a benchmark for later comparisons. Some subsequent ‘episodes’ in the life of modern Britain are then considered, all of which throw light on the religious situation in this country and its likely futures. The empirical data that emerge from these case studies provide a framework for a discussion of (a) increasing religious pluralism,…
Global Civil Religion
This article responds to the notion of a global civil religion from a European perspective. In so doing, it makes use of three rather different starting points, which work outwards in terms of their geographical scope. The first looks at the concept of civil society within a European context; the second section demonstrates both the capacities and the limitations of the major European religious traditions to operate on a European as opposed to na…
Religion in Modern Europe
Journal Article Religion in modern Europe: a memory mutates, Grace Davie New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, 218 pp. $60.00 (cloth), $27.95 (paper) Get access Lina Molokotos-Liederman Lina Molokotos-Liederman E.P.H.E/G.S.R.L, Paris, France Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 63, Issue 3, Fall 2002, Pages 392–393, https://doi.org/10.2307/3712478 Published: 01 October 2002
Praying Alone? Church-Going in Britain and Social Capital
This article responds to Bruce's reluctance to consider the decline in church-going in Britain in relation to wider changes in social behaviour, more especially the unwillingness of increasing sections of the population to participate in voluntary activity or civic engagement of any kind. It covers two points in particular: the first relates to the Putnam thesis and the particular place of religion in this; the second considers in more detail the…
Excavation of Iron Age Burials at Corran, Boreray, Outer Hebrides
Reports an archaeological recording of an area of eroding dunes on the Isle of Boreray, North Uist. Several structures were visible in section including a probable house, two cists and the partial remains of a small corbelled structure or cell. The cists and corbelled structure were fully excavated. One cist was a long cist containing a flexed inhumation, the other was a short cist containing a crouched inhumation. The skeletal remains were very …
The Evolution of the Sociology of Religion
The beginnings of the sociology of religion are barely distinguishable from the beginnings of sociology per se. This is hardly surprising, given that its earliest practitioners were the founding fathers of sociology itself, all of whom were committed to the serious study of religion as a crucial variable in the understanding of human societies. Of course, they did this from different perspectives – the outlining of which will form an important pa…
Handbook of the Sociology of Religion
This Handbook showcases research and thinking in the sociology of religion. The contributors, all active writers and researchers in the area, provide original chapters focusing on select aspects of their own engagement with the field. Aimed at students and scholars who want to know more about the sociology of religion, this handbook also provides a resource for sociologists in general by integrating broader questions of sociology (e.g. demography…
A Reply to Francis & Robbins
I am grateful for the chance to reply to this article, which raises important issues concerning the relationships between religious belief, belonging and practice. My reactions are two-fold: first, that I agree with its conclusions, and secondly, that these are entirely consonant with the aims that I set myself when I wrote Religion in Britain since 1945—complete with its now famous (or infamous) subtitle ‘believing without belonging’
New Approaches in the Sociology of Religion
This article has three sections. The first deals with the attempts by the sociology of religion to come to terms with the post-modern condition; it draws on the argument set out in the final chapter of Davie (1994). The second section updates these ideas taking account of more recent evidence. The third looks to the future; it is based primarily on the more theoretical aspects of Davie (2002a). It illustrates the needfor rather different approach…
Peter Berger, Questions of Faith. A Skeptical Affirmation of Christianity
ion faite de l’interet effectif de mettre les deux articles de Bourdieu a la disposition du lecteur allemand, le lecteur ne peut s’empecher de s’interroger sur le sens de la preoccupation sous-jacente a l’adjonction des deux autres textes. En effet, si en Allemagne, les questions theoriques qui se posent dans le champ de l’histoire culturelle sont devenues, depuis quelques annees, d’une acuite telle qu’un etat des lieux des grandes contributions …
Introduction
Journal Article Introduction: Culture and Constraint in the Sociology of Religion Get access Grace Davie Grace Davie Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 65, Issue 4, Winter 2004, Pages 319–321, https://doi.org/10.1093/socrel/65.4.319 Published: 01 December 2004
From Obligation to Consumption
The following article is concerned with the changing nature of religion in Northern Europe. It considers first the concepts of "believing without belonging" and "vicarious religion," pointing out the limitations of each and drawing extensively on previously published work. The following section discusses in more detail a shift that is currently taking place—that is from forms of religion that are imposed or inherited to forms of religion that are…
I s E urope an E xceptional C ase ?
Overview and implementation of an intervention to prevent adherence failure among HIV-infected adults initiating antiretroviral therapy
Project HEART, an acronym for Helping Enhance Adherence to Retroviral Therapy, was a prospective, controlled study to develop, implement, and evaluate a clinic-based behavioural intervention to prevent adherence failure among HIV-infected adults beginning their first highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) regimen (N = 227). In this paper, we describe the conceptualisation of the Project HEART adherence intervention, characteristics of the p…
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