The Pervasive World-View
Religion in Pre-Modern Britain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5633254 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steve Bruce (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 667 |
| Publication date | 1997-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1315 • E-ISSN: 1468-4446 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/591602 |
| OpenAlex | W2321083474 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 36 |
Recent critics of the secularization thesis have questioned the extent to which pre-modern Britain was religious by creating a caricature of a «Golden Age of Faith» and then showing that the reality fell short of that image. This rejoinder stresses the need to appreciate the nature of religion pre-Reformation and draws on the work of leading historians to show that, even if we accept the most jaundiced view of religion before and shortly after the Reformation, the previous orthodoxy was more accurate than the recent revisions. In Laslett's phrase, «the world we have lost» was a religious world
Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious Tourism and Spaces
Religiousness and Spirituality
Religion and Violence
Church Attendance in the United States
Religion and the New Immigrants
Dis/location
Latina Empowerment, Border Realities, and Faith-Based Organizations
Beyond the Synagogue Walls
Religion and Health
Escaping the Procustean Bed
Historicizing the Secularization Debate
Studying Religion, Making it Sociological
Civil Society and Civil Religion as Mutually Dependent
The Dynamics of Religious Economies
The Ritual Roots of Society and Culture
Religious Social Movements in the Public Sphere
Mapping the Moral Order
Religion and Political Behavior
“Worldly” or “Other Worldly”?
Religion and Spirituality
Demographic Methods for the Sociology of Religion
In Rhetoric and Practice
The Sociology of Religion in Late Modernity
The Evolution of the Sociology of Religion
Social Forms of Religion and Religions in Contemporary Global Society
Religious Socialization
Religious Identities and Religious Institutions
Religion, Faith-Based Community Organizing, and the Struggle for Justice
A Journey of the “Straight Way” or the “Roundabout Path”
Religion as one of the Leading Actors of Medieval Europe (A Critique of Rodney Stark)
Handbook of the Sociology of Religion
Chinese outbound tourism
Tourist Film Souvenirs and Post-Postmodern Authentication
Co je dnes v sociologii obhajitelné? Prezentismus, historická vize a proč je sociologie užitečná
The Charismatic Movement and the Secularization Thesis
Do espaço sagrado à pista de dança
What is Worth Defending in Sociology Today? Presentism, Historical Vision and the Uses of Sociology
| Citations per year | 1.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1998 - 2025 (28) |
| Highly cited | No |