Biography
Brian Gibbons is a lecturer in literature and cultural history at Liverpool John Moores University. His main research interests are occult spiritualities andd seventeenth-century English Radicalism. He is the author of Gender in Mystical and Occult Thought: Behmenism and its Development in England (1998).
'Spirituality and the Occult is a valuable work of interest to historians, specialists in religious studies, and those interested in the history of ideas ...' - Vivianne Crowley, Journal of Contemporary Religion
'... a compelling and evocative picture of the world we have lost ... The book is a study in contrasts and as such offers one of the most uncompromising depictions of present-day secularisation to appear in a scholarly work. The Death of Christian Britain is a fine and provoking work, one to excite both admiration and dissent.' - David Voas, Journal of Contemporary Religion' ... this succint, but rich and wide-ranging work ... opens up many new important pathways.' - The Scientific and Medical Network
