634 research outputs found
Callum G. Brown, Religion and Society in Twentieth-Century Britain
No full textConsacré à l’évolution des rapports entre religion et société au Royaume-Uni du début du xixe siècle à nos jours, ce livre est une contribution supplémentaire à la vive controverse qui sévit depuis plusieurs décennies outre-Manche concernant la sécularisation. Refusant de rejoindre les tenants d’une approche «révisionniste» qui ont mis en avant le caractère non linéaire du processus de «sortie de la religion», l’historien Callum G. Brown se distingue également des défenseurs de la théorie cla..
Everyday masculinity in twentieth century Scotland
No full textOver the twentieth century Scots' lives changed in fast, dramatic and culturally significant ways. By examining their bodies, homes, working lives, rituals, beliefs and consumption, this volume exposes how the very substance of everyday life was composed, tracing both the intimate and the mass changes that the people endured. Using novel perspectives and methods, chapters range across the experiences of work, art and death, the way Scots conceived of themselves and their homes, and the way the 'old Scotland' of oppressive community rules broke down from mid-century as the country reinvented its everyday life and culture.This volume brings together leading cultural historians of twentieth-century Scotland to study the apparently mundane activities of people's lives, traversing the key spaces where daily experience is composed to expose the controversial personal and national politics that ritual and practice can generate
Becoming Atheist: Humanism and the Secular West
No full textThe western world is becoming atheist. In the space of three generations, churchgoing and religious belief have become alien to millions. We are in the midst of one of humankind's great cultural changes. How has this happened? Becoming Atheist offers the most thorough analysis of this phenomenon to date, exploring through their own words how people have come to live their lives as if there is no God. It tells the stories of those who have come to secular lives in Britain, western Europe, the United States and Canada, mostly from Christian and Jewish backgrounds. Based on interviews with over 80 people born in 18 countries, Callum Brown shows that a long-latent humanism has been roused in the post-1945 secularising west. Focusing on the gender, ethnic and childhood dimensions of atheists from the United Kingdom, the USA, Canada and Europe, the author looks at how the religious condition of the western world changed during the 20th and 21st centuries. By listening to individuals' life stories, this book moves away from mere statistical or broad cultural analysis. Making extensive use of frank, humorous and sometimes harrowing personal testimony, Becoming Atheist exposes the people's role in renegotiating their own identities and fashioning a secular and humanist culture for the western world
The Battle for Christian Britain: Sex, Humanists and Secularisation, 1945-1980
No full textPost-war British culture was initially dominated by religious-led sexual austerity and, from the sixties, by secular liberalism. Using five case studies of local licensing and a sixth on the BBC, conservative Christians are exposed here as the nation's censors, fighting effectively for purity on stage, screen and in public places. The Anglican-led Public Morality Council was astonishingly successful in restraining sex in London's media in the fifties, but a brazen sexualised culture thrived amongst the millions of tourists to Blackpool, whilst Glasgow and the Isle of Lewis were gripped by conservatism. But come the late 1960s, tourists took Blackpool's sexual liberalism home, whilst progressive Humanism burrowed into Parliament and the BBC to secularise moral reform and the national narrative. Using extensive archival research, Callum G. Brown adopts a secular gaze to show how conservative Christians lost the battle for the nation's moral culture
Community Sport Coaching and Impression Management
No full textThis chapter positions community sport coaching work as a social, interactive performance. It begins by introducing the concept of dramaturgy and Erving Goffman’s ground-breaking work addressing ‘the presentation of the self in everyday life. This background information is then followed by an exposition of some of Goffman’s central dramaturgical concepts and the ways in which they connect with, and could be used to inform, everyday community sport coaching practice. Here, Callum, the last author, provides detailed examples of how he has utilised these dramaturgical concepts to inform the ways in which he performs his community sport coaching role. Finally, the conclusion summarises the central arguments and issues raised in this chapter and provides some critical questions to stimulate your reflection on the dramaturgical dimensions of everyday practice
School Bullying: a Social Justice Issue? How Restorative Approaches May Prevent Future Violence
No full textThis article by Callum Jones discusses how restorative approaches by schools could be used to prevent future harm. The author explores how bullying is experienced, how it could be linked to future violent crime, and how school bullying prevention is a social justice issue
The Humanist Movement in Modern Britain: A History of Ethicists, Rationalists and Humanists
No full textHumanists have been a major force in British life since the turn of the 20th century. Here, leading historians of religious non-belief Callum Brown, David Nash, and Charlie Lynch examine how humanist organisations brought ethical reform and rationalism to the nation as it faced the moral issues of the modern world. This book provides a long overdue account of this dynamic group.
Developing through the Ethical Union (1896), the Rationalist Press Association (1899), the British Humanist Association (1963) and Humanists UK (2017), Humanists sought to reduce religious privilege but increase humanitarian compassion and human rights.
After pioneering legislation on blasphemy laws, dignity in dying and abortion rights, they went on to help design new laws on gay marriage, and sex and moral education. Internationally, they endeavoured to end war and world hunger. And with Humanist marriages and celebration of life through Humanist funerals, national ritual and culture have recently been transformed.
Based on extensive archival and oral-history research, this is the definitive history of Humanists as an ethical force in modern Britain
Callum G. Brown, The Death of Christian Britain. Understanding Secularisation, 1800-2000, Londres/New York, Routledge, 2001, 256 p. ISBN 0-415-24184-7. Relié : 65 livres sterling ; broché : 18,99 livres sterling.
No full textLa couverture du livre, aux couleurs de l’Union Flag, montre une statuette du Christ délaissée au coin d’une pièce. Face à elle, une chaise au bleu passé est couverte d’une épaisse couche de poussière. En arrière plan, sur les murs moisis de ce qui ressemble à un presbytère abandonné ou à un ancien local associatif, on distingue plusieurs générations de papiers peints rouges et blancs. Cette image d’un monde perdu résume bien le propos de Callum G. Brown qui s’attache à démontrer l’unité d’un..
Dataset supporting the publication "Optical Mie scattering by DNA-assembled three-dimensional gold nanoparticle superlattice crystals".
No full textThis dataset containing spectra and maps of gold-DNA superlattices, numerical simulation results presented in publication:
H J Singh, D Misatziou, C Wheeler, Á Buendía, V Giannini, J A. Sánchez-Gil, M H. V. Werts, T Brown, A H. El-Sagheer, A G. Kanaras, and O L. Muskens;
TITLE: Optical Mie Scattering by DNA-Assembled Three-Dimensional Gold Nanoparticle Superlattice Crystals, published in ACS Appl. Opt. Mater. http://doi.org/10.1021/acsaom.2c00008
This dataset contains:
FigureData_v1.xlsx Excel spreadsheet containing separate worksheets labelled with corresponding figure number.
Each worksheet contains columns of data with Wavelength (nm), and corresponding spectral data (normalized for 1 for 100% transmission / scattering).
Spectral data columns are labelled corresponding to the different parts of the figure.
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