The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World

The New Puritans is a sobering exploration of cancel culture and the moral certainties it shares with religious fundamentalism, arguing that it is a religion that makes grand claims to moral purity and tolerates no dissent. Andrew Doyle's book offers an eloquent and powerful case for the reinstatement of liberal values and explains why it is important to act now.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 400 pages
Publication date: 04 May 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

The New Puritans is a sobering but devastating critique of cancel culture and the moral certainties it shares with religious fundamentalism. It is an engaging, incisive, and acute exploration of our current cultural climate and an urgent appeal to return to a truly liberal society.

The puritans of the seventeenth century sought to remake society in accordance with their own beliefs, but they were deep thinkers who were aware of their own fallibility. Today, in the grip of the new puritans, we see a very different story. Leading a cultural revolution driven by identity politics and so-called social justice, the new puritanism movement is best understood as a religion that makes grand claims to moral purity and tolerates no dissent. Its disciples even have their own language, rituals, and a determination to root out sinners through what has become known as cancel culture.

In The New Puritans, Andrew Doyle powerfully examines the underlying belief systems of this ideology and how it has risen so rapidly to dominate all major political, cultural, and corporate institutions. He reasons that to move forward, we need to understand where these new puritans came from and what they hope to achieve. Written in the spirit of optimism and understanding, Doyle offers an eloquent and powerful case for the reinstatement of liberal values and explains why it is important that we act now.

Weight: 317g
Dimension: 196 x 126 x 34 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780349135304