Mass Observers Making Meaning: Religion, Spirituality and Atheism in Late 20th-Century Britain: The Mass-Observation Critical Series
Autor Emeritus Professor James Hintonen Limba Engleză Hardback – 24 feb 2022
The volunteer mass observers responded to such questions with a freshness, openness and honesty which compels attention. Using this rich material, Mass Observers Making Meaning captures the extraordinarily diverse landscape of belief and disbelief to be found in Britain in the late 20th-century, at a time when Christianity was in steep decline, alternative spiritualities were flourishing and atheism was growing. Divided as they were about the ultimate nature of reality, the mass observers were united in their readiness to puzzle about life's larger questions. Listening empathetically to their accounts, James Hinton - himself a convinced atheist - seeks to bring divergent ways of finding meaning in human life into dialogue with one another, and argues that we can move beyond the cacophony of conflicting beliefs to an understanding of our common need and ability to seek meaning in our lives.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781350274495
ISBN-10: 1350274496
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria The Mass-Observation Critical Series
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1350274496
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria The Mass-Observation Critical Series
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Puzzled People?
2. Belief and Disbelief
3. Death and Afterwards
4. Religion and Science
5. Uses of the Paranormal
6. Moments of our Time
7. A Pagan Priestess
8. Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Puzzled People?
2. Belief and Disbelief
3. Death and Afterwards
4. Religion and Science
5. Uses of the Paranormal
6. Moments of our Time
7. A Pagan Priestess
8. Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
The material that Hinton uses in this book was generated by a 1996 directive asking volunteers to write about their attitudes to the supernatural, understood in a broad sense, and how those attitudes relate to their other beliefs . What emerges is a fascinating picture of a complexity that is missed by the idea of a simple religious/nonreligious divide.
Our understanding of religion, spirituality and non-religion is impoverished by a lack of first-hand accounts about something so universal, and ineffable, that it lacks even a shared vocabulary: the 'supernatural', or sense of 'something else'. Fortunately, the eminent historian and Mass Observation expert Prof. James Hinton has filled that gap by creating an engaging, informed book based on late 20th century accounts of such phenomena from MO volunteers. His reflections and interpretations are well-grounded in social history and the social scientific study of religion, making this an indispensable resource for scholars and students trying to understand how modern people make meaning, regardless of their religious affiliations.
In a recent overview of the use of documents in research about religion, my co-author and I remarked on the unrealised potential of the Mass Observation archive. How satisfying therefore to find a book that not only addresses this lacuna but does so superbly well. I recommend unreservedly this generous, sensitive and compelling account.
Hinton, in short, has done it: he has written a successful book about 'religion.' Mass Observers Making Meaning can be recommended to anyone interested in Christianity, spirituality, and secularization in 1990s Britain.
Our understanding of religion, spirituality and non-religion is impoverished by a lack of first-hand accounts about something so universal, and ineffable, that it lacks even a shared vocabulary: the 'supernatural', or sense of 'something else'. Fortunately, the eminent historian and Mass Observation expert Prof. James Hinton has filled that gap by creating an engaging, informed book based on late 20th century accounts of such phenomena from MO volunteers. His reflections and interpretations are well-grounded in social history and the social scientific study of religion, making this an indispensable resource for scholars and students trying to understand how modern people make meaning, regardless of their religious affiliations.
In a recent overview of the use of documents in research about religion, my co-author and I remarked on the unrealised potential of the Mass Observation archive. How satisfying therefore to find a book that not only addresses this lacuna but does so superbly well. I recommend unreservedly this generous, sensitive and compelling account.
Hinton, in short, has done it: he has written a successful book about 'religion.' Mass Observers Making Meaning can be recommended to anyone interested in Christianity, spirituality, and secularization in 1990s Britain.