Men, Masculinities and Religious Change in Twentieth-Century Britain

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction: Men, Masculinities and Religious Change in Post-Christian Britain

   • Lucy Delap, Sue Morgan

   Pages 1-29

3. Buddhist Psychologies and Masculinity in Early Twentieth-Century Britain

   • Alison Falby

   Pages 30-53

4. ‘The People of God Dressed for Dinner and Dancing’? English Catholic Masculinity, Religious Sociability and the Catenian Association

   • Alana Harris

   Pages 54-89

5. ‘To Their Credit as Jews and Englishmen’: Services for Youth and the Shaping of Jewish Masculinity in Britain, 1890s–1930s

   • Susan L. Tananbaum

   Pages 90-118

6. ‘Be Strong and Play the Man’: Anglican Masculinities in the Twentieth Century

   • Lucy Delap

   Pages 119-145

7. The Emergence of a British Hindu Identity between 1936 and 1937

   • Sumita Mukherjee

   Pages 146-167

8. ‘Iron Strength and Infinite Tenderness’: Herbert Gray and the Making of Christian Masculinities at War and at Home, 1900–40

   • Sue Morgan

   Pages 168-196

9. Moral Welfare and Social Well-Being: The Church of England and the Emergence of Modern Homosexuality

   • Timothy W. Jones

   Pages 197-217

10. Why Examine Men, Masculinities and Religion in Northern Ireland?

    • Sean Brady

    Pages 218-251

11. British Pakistani Masculinities: Longing and Belonging

    • Amanullah De Sondy

    Pages 252-278

12. ‘Laboratories’ of Gender? Masculinities, Spirituality and New Religious Movements in Late Twentieth-Century Britain

    • Stephen Hunt

    Pages 279-300

13. Men Losing Faith: The Making of Modern No Religionism in the UK, 1939–2010

    • Callum G. Brown

    Pages 301-325

14. Back Matter

    Pages 326-335

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Charting the growing religious pluralism of British society, this book investigates the diverse formations of masculinity within and across specific religions, regions and immigrant communities. Contributors look beyond conventional realms of worship to examine men's diverse religious cultures in a variety of contexts.

• 20. Jahrhundert
• 20th century
• Anglican Church
• Britain
• England
• gender
• Judaism
• pluralism
• religion

“Masculinity and religious change in the twentieth-century United Kingdom is the topic of this collection of essays, edited by the historians Lucy Delap and Sue Morgan and presenting the results of a conference held in 2012. … the book is very readable and gives an interesting insight into the cultural, political and social developments in an increasingly multicultural British society.” (Yvonne Maria Werner, Theology and Sexuality, Vol. 21 (1), 2015)

"An engaging and thought-provoking account of the dynamic relationships between a range of faith - and no faith - traditions and diverse and internally complex articulations of masculinity. Focusing on 'religion' broadly conceived - from belief to institutional affiliation and beyond - and employing a variety of approaches and methodologies, this is crucial reading for anyone interested inthe history of masculinity or of religion and secularization in modern Britain." - Professor Joy Dixon, University of British Columbia, Canada

'This is a ground-breaking collection. Masculinity and religiosity provide fascinating vantage points from which to view the assumptions and established narratives and chronologies of recent British history. The authors throw new questions into the mix. If spirituality was increasingly upheld by women and religious identities became feminised in the twentieth century, how should we understand men's investments in religion? How does attention to spirituality change our ideas about masculinity, the supposed shift from the heroic manliness of the Edwardian adventurer, to the mid-century domesticity of the 'little man' and more psychological ideas of the self? Men, Masculinities and Religious Change shows the century in a different light, demonstrating the persistence of traditional modes of piety and ideals of manly conduct while revealingthe variety of religious affiliations and identities, in the process revealing the complex shapes of modernity in Britain.' - Professor Michael Roper, University of Essex, UK

• King’s College London, UK

  Lucy Delap

• University of Chichester, UK

  Sue Morgan

Sean Brady Birkbeck College, University of London, UK Callum G. Brown, University of Glasgow, UK Amanullah De Sondy, University of Miami, USA Alison Falby, Anglican Diocese of Toronto, Canada Alana Harris, University of Oxford, UK Stephen Hunt, University of the West of England, UK Timothy W. Jones, University of Glamorgan, UK and La Trobe University, Australia Sumita Mukherjee, University of Glasgow, UK Susan L. Tananbaum, Bowdoin College, USA

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