David Martin's vivid, elegant and absorbing prose offers surprising and often moving insights into his life, times and intellectual development. As Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the LSE he gives a compelling behind-the-scenes account of the protests during the 1960s and 1970s. He also recounts the ups and downs of his leading role in championing the King James Bible and the Prayer Book in the 1980's. It will be a must read for the many people, both within and without the church, who have been influenced by his seminal writings.

David Martin

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Introduction: my education in prospect

Part 1 Preludes

1. Numinous Dorset and mundane Mortlake SW14

2. Mortlake Church of England Primary School

3. East Sheen Grammar School

4. A passion for music

5. The Non-Combatant Corps

6. Further education: training, teaching, marriage break-up

7. Reading theology and local preaching: test-bed of faith

8. Exit strategy – sociology by correspondence

Part 2 Sketches of LSE and student revolution

9. Late arrival at university and Donald Gunn MacRae

10. Getting my bearings at the LSE

11. Bryan Wilson, the Jews, secularization and its discontents

12. More on LSE and student revolution

Part 3 Another culture war?

13. The Book of Common Prayer and the KJV

Part 4 Explorations in secularization and pentecostalism

14. The ecology of secularization: the Balkans, Scandinavia – and Rome

15. Buddhist revival in Japan, Islamic revival in Lebanon

16. Southern Methodist University

17. Victorian England in Latin America

Retrospect: losses and recoveries of faith and further reflections on violence

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__David Martin is one of the most distinguished writers on Christianity and society in modern times.__

Known and respected internationally for his critique of the secularisation theory that once dominated sociology, David Martin is credited with generating the first comparative general theory of secularisation.

A regular contributor to media debates on the role of religion in society, his many influential writings and broadcasts range extensively over issues of religion, politics, violence and war.

David Martin's vivid, elegant and absorbing prose offers surprising and often moving insights into his life, times and intellectual development. As Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the LSE he gives a compelling behind-the-scenes account of the protests during the 1960s and 1970s. He also recounts the ups and downs of his leading role in championing the King James Bible and the Prayer Book in the 1980's.

It will be a must read for the many people, both within and without the church, who have been influenced by his seminal writings.

David Martin is one of the most distinguished writers on Christianity and society in modern times; his many influential writings and broadcasts range extensively over issues of religion, politics, violence and war. His vivid, elegant and absorbing prose offers surprising and often moving insights into his life, times and intellectual development.

David Martin is one of the most distinguished writers on Christianity and society in modern times. Known and respected internationally for his critique of the secularisation theory that once dominated sociology, David Martin is credited with generating the first comparative general theory of secularisation. A regular contributor to media debates on the role of religion in society, his many influential writings and broadcasts range extensively over issues of religion, politics, violence and war. David Martin's vivid, elegant and absorbing prose offers surprising and often moving insights into his life, times and intellectual development. As Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the LSE he gives a compelling behind-the-scenes account of the protests during the 1960s and 1970s. He also recounts the ups and downs of his leading role in championing the King James Bible and the Prayer Book in the 1980's. It will be a must read for the many people, both within and without the church, who have been influenced by his seminal writings.

David Martin is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Honorary Professor of the Sociology of Religion at Lancaster University.

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