The Death of Christian Britain: Understanding secularisation, 18002000

BOOK COVER......Page 1
TITLE......Page 6
COPYRIGHT......Page 7
CONTENTS......Page 8
ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 10
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 11
ABBREVATIONS......Page 13
NOTE ON ORAL HISTORY......Page 14
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION......Page 18
CHAPTER TWO The Problem with \'Religious Decline’......Page 33
CHAPTER THREE The Salvation Economy......Page 52
CHAPTER FOUR Angels: Women in Discourse and Narrative 1800 – 1950......Page 75
CHAPTER FIVE Heathens: Men in Discourse and Narrative 1800 – 1950......Page 105
CHAPTER SIX Personal Testimony and Religion 1800 – 1950......Page 132
CHAPTER SEVEN \'Unimpeachable Witnesses’: The Statistics of ‘Christian Progress’ 1800–1950......Page 162
CHAPTER EIGHT The 1960s and Secularisation......Page 187
CHAPTER NINE The End of a Long Story......Page 210
CHAPTER TEN Postscript: The mortality of Christian Britain reconsidered......Page 216
NOTES......Page 252
SOURCES......Page 294
INDEX......Page 314