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Moral vigilance -- Licensing at the front line: London and Blackpool -- Licensing in the provinces: Sheffield, Glasgow and Lewis -- Battle at the Beeb part 1 -- The privatisation of moral vigilance -- The sixties liberalisation of licensing -- The humanist challenge -- Battle at the Beeb part 2 -- The birth of civilised Britain.

In an innovative 'turn back' from postmodern theory and method, Callum Brown reasserts the importance of people's own liberal desires for freedom and moral rectitude based on a sense of common humanity rather than dogma. In a comparative study looking at Britain, Ireland, Canada and the USA, he shows how secularisation has not been limited to religious decline but has invoked a revolutionary demography based on the spreading new morality of the contemporary age

This text challenges the generally held view that secularisation has been a long and gradual process beginning with the Industrial Revolution, and instead proposes that it has been a catastrophic short-term phenomenon starting with the 1960s