The sixties and beyond. Dechristianization in north America and western Europe, 1945-2000

The central topic is the role of the 1960's in the decline of religion in the West. Sociologists tend to see secularisation as a long and gradual process with its roots in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Callum Brown’s The death of Christian Britain (2001) proposed a radical alternative: that in the UK the Churches were doing pretty well until ‘a catastrophic and abrupt cultural revolution starting in the 1960's