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Book Reviews / Ecclesiology 5 (2009) 362–402 371 Jane Garnett, Matthew Grimley, Alana Harris, William Whyte and Sarah Williams, (eds.) Redefi ning Christian Britain: Post 1945 Perspectives (London: SCM Press, 2006). xii + 308pp. £18.99. ISBN 978-0-334-04092-7 (pbk). Analyses of the state of religion in Britain, both historical and contemporary, have tended to be dominated by the so-called ‘secularization thesis’. Th is argues that with western modernity came the disintegration of what Peter Berger calls the ‘sacred canopy’ of Christendom. Th is lead to the disengagement of the Christian Church from public life and its displacement by secular agencies, the privatization of religion, diff erentiation and fragmentation of denominational forms and the rationalization of world-views, until religion became marginal and irrelevant to the functioning of modern society. Yet the adequacy of secu- larization as an outworking of the grand narratives of modernization, rationali- zation and individualism, has been challenged by the emergence of new forms of religious expression and their fervent and disturbing eruption into global politics, and by the need to reconfi gure the nature of religious belief and affi li- ation in the light of religious pluralism and migration, especially since 1945. Scholarship has tended to
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Published: Jan 1, 2009
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