The Secularization of Early Modern England: From Religious Culture to Religious Faith

by C. John Sommerville and Professor of History C John Sommerville

This study overcomes the ambiguity and daunting scale of the subject of secularization by using the insights of anthropology and sociology, and by examining an earlier period than usually considered. Concentrating not only on a decline of religious belief, which is the last aspect of secularization, this study shows that a transformation of England's cultural grammar had to precede that loosening of belief, and that this was largely accomplished between...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195074270
• ISBN13: 9780195074277
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"