Religion and the Demographic Revolution: Women and Secularisation in Canada, Ireland, UK and USA Since the 1960s

by Callum G. Brown

A much-awaited new book by the foremost scholar of secularisation and religion in the modern world.

In the 1960s, two great social and cultural changes of the western world began. The first was the rapid decline of Christian religious practice and identity and the rise of the people of 'no religion'. The second was the transformation in women's lives that spawned a demographic revolution in sex, family and work. Both phenomena were sudden though...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843837927
• ISBN13: 9781843837923
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.5" x 6.2"