Description
Book SynopsisExplores current religious features of the monarchy and the state that seem increasingly anachronistic in more secular and more religiously diverse societies. -- .
Trade Review'This timely book will appeal to a wide range of students of British and Commonwealth constitutional politics and of religion and the state. It cannot now be very many years before a new monarch is proclaimed and crowned, in a Britain and Commonwealth very different from what they were when the present Queen ascended the throne. Decisions will have to be made about the rituals which will accompany that event. Bonney shows that those decisions - which rituals are retained, which reshaped, which quietly or not so quietly dropped - will say much about who we are and about who we are supposed to be.'
Andrew Connell, Political Studies Review, May 2016
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Table of Contents1. Secularisation, religion and the state
2. The evolution of the accession and coronation oaths
3. The installation and potential power of a new sovereign
4. What a day for England! The coronation of 1953
5. Parliamentary devolution, church establishment and new UK state religion
6. The next coronation: civil religion in the making
7. UK state Anglican multi-faithism and the Protestant monarchy
8. Monarchy and religion in Canada, Australia and the other realms
9. References
Index
