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Frontcover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Overview; Religious history; Demographic history; Thinking about demography and secularisation; Book aims; 2 The sixties; Crisis? What crisis?; Gradualism: the theory of secularisation and its critics; The fifties; The sixties; Conceptualising the people of no religion; Conclusion; 3 Religious change; Introduction; Measuring change; Church attendance; Church membership and adherence; Belief; Identity: the growth of non-religion; Conclusion; 4 Sex and religion; Introduction; Debating sex and religion.

The sexual revolution: gay liberationThe sexual revolution: premarital sex; Sex and religion: the survey evidence; Conclusion; 5 Family and religion; Introduction; Marriage; Birth; Conclusion; 6 The economy and women's religion; Introduction; Economics and religion; Education and religion; Women and work; Conclusion; 7 The decision-makers; The secular revolution; The demographic revolution; A gendered model of secularisation; The rise of the people of no religion; Bibliography; Index; Backcover.

In an innovative 'turn back' from postmodern theory and method, Callum Brown reasserts the importance of people's own liberal desires for freedom and moral rectitude based on a sense of common humanity rather than dogma. In a comparative study looking at Britain, Ireland, Canada and the USA, he shows how secularisation has not been limited to religious decline but has invoked a revolutionary demography based on the spreading new morality of the contemporary age.

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