Strange Death of Moral Britain
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Anthony Brown
Author_Christie Davies
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Capital Punishment
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Criminal Statistics England
Davies 1983c
deviant behavior studies
Diminished Responsibility
Edward King
England Moral Welfare Council
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european
family breakdown analysis
Federal Republic Of Germany
Homosexual Behavior
homosexuals
human
Law Commission
male
Male Homosexual Acts
Male Homosexual Behavior
Moral Britain
moral decline in twentieth century Britain
Moral Ireland
Non-capital Murder
penalty
punishment
religious identity crisis
Respectable Britain
retain
Retain Capital Punishment
rights
Roman Catholic
Roman Catholic Britain
Roman Catholic MPs
secularization
social change theory
Strange Death
Sunday Schools
Unlawful Carnal Knowledge
utilitarian ethics
Van Der Elst
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781412806220
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Aug 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the last half of the twentieth century, a once respectable and religious Britain became a seriously violent and dishonest society, one in which person and property were at risk, family breakdown was ubiquitous, and drug and alcohol abuse was rising. The Strange Death of Moral Britain demonstrates in detail the roots of Britain's decline. It also shows how a society, strongly Protestant in both morality and identity, became one of the most secular societies in the world.The culture wars about abortion, capital punishment, and homosexuality, which have convulsed the United States, have little meaning in Britain where there is neither a moral majority nor any indigenous emphasis on rights. In the period when Britain had a strong national and religious identity, defense of this identity led to legal persecution of male homosexuals. As Britain's identity crumbled, homosexuality ceased to be an important issue for most people. Similarly, all the pressing questions on abortion, capital punishment, and homosexuality were settled permanently on a purely utilitarian basis in Britain, where all sources of moral argument are weak. The ending of the death penalty marked the decline of the influence of the official hierarchies of church and state, the Church of England, the armed forces, and their representative, the Conservative Party.The Strange Death of Moral Britain is a study of moral change, secularization, loss of identity, and the growth of deviant behavior in Britain in the twentieth century. Based on detailed scholarship, it is tightly argued and clearly written with a minimum of jargon. It will be of interest to scholars in religious studies and British social history, and to a general reading public concerned with timely moral controversies.
