Steve Bruce, Professor of Sociology, University of Aberdeen
Steve Bruce has been Professor of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen since 1991. An internationally-known expert on religion and politics, he is a fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Previous Oxford University Press publications include: Secular Beats Spiritual:the Westernization of the Easternization of the West (2017); Secularization: In Defence of an Unfashionable Theory (2013); and Sociology: A Very Short Introduction (2000). His book Scottish Gods: Religion in Modern Scotland 1900-2012 (Edinburgh University Press, 2014), won the Saltire Scottish History Book of the Year Award, 2014.
Preface 1. The Big House: Elite Patronage of Religion 2. Ties That Bind: Community Cohesion in Scotland and Wales 3. Social Roles of the Clergy: Cumbria and Devon 4. Old Rivals Merge; New Divisions Emerge 5. Modernising the Faith: the Charismatic Movement 6. Migrant Christians and Pentecostalism in London 7. Worktown and Muslims 8. Gods of the Common People: Folk Religion and Superstition 9. Spiritualism, Spirituality, and Social Class 10. Religion and Politics 11. Can the Decline be Reversed?
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