L’histoire sociale de la religion au XIXe siècle : la sécularisation en question

The study of Victorian religion has been dominated in recent years by an all-round critique of the “secularization thesis” promoted by social historians in the 1960s and 1970s. Studies of institutional religion, of the religious consequences of modernity, or of the Victorian crisis of faith, have re...

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Main Author: Julien Vincent
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Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche et d'Etudes en Civilisation Britannique 2008-04-01
Series:Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/6072
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L’histoire sociale de la religion au XIXe siècle : la sécularisation en question
Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique
title L’histoire sociale de la religion au XIXe siècle : la sécularisation en question
title_full L’histoire sociale de la religion au XIXe siècle : la sécularisation en question
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title_short L’histoire sociale de la religion au XIXe siècle : la sécularisation en question
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