The Death of Christian Britain
The Death of Christian Britain
The Death of Christian Britain
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— Notes to pages 164–173 —<br />
62 Calculated from the author’s running datasets on Scottish church membership.<br />
63 C.G. Brown, ‘Religion and secularisation’, in Dickson and Treble (eds), People<br />
and Society, pp. 48–55.<br />
64 Brown, Religion and Society, p. 54; in England there was a rise during 1919–34<br />
from 1.57 to 1.77 per cent <strong>of</strong> marriages being performed by non-mainstream<br />
churches; calculated from data in Currie, Gilbert and Horsley, Churches and<br />
Churchgoers, p. 224, ‘others’ column.<br />
65 Calculated from the author’s datasets on Scottish church members and church<br />
attendance censuses.<br />
66 S.C. Williams, Religious Belief and Popular Culture in Southwark, c. 1880–1939,<br />
Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 54–104.<br />
67 Cf. McLeod, Religion and Society, p. 60.<br />
8 THE 1960S AND SECULARISATION<br />
1 One <strong>of</strong> the few to note the significance <strong>of</strong> the fifties is G. Parsons, ‘Contrasts<br />
and continuities: the traditional <strong>Christian</strong> churches in <strong>Britain</strong> since 1945’,<br />
in G. Parsons (ed.), <strong>The</strong> Growth <strong>of</strong> Religious Diversity: <strong>Britain</strong> from 1945,<br />
vol. 1, London, Routledge, 1993, pp. 46–55. For examples <strong>of</strong> how 1950s’<br />
church growth has been largely ignored or downgraded, see B. Wilson, Religion<br />
in Secular Society, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1966; G. Davie, Religion in<br />
<strong>Britain</strong> since 1945: Believing Without Belonging, Oxford, Blackwell, 1994,<br />
pp. 30–3.<br />
2 L. Heron (ed.), Truth, Dare or Promise: Girls Growing up in the Fifties,<br />
London, Virago, 1985, p. 5.<br />
3 P. Summerfield, Women Workers in <strong>The</strong> Second World War, London, Croom<br />
Helm, 1984, p. 184.<br />
4 Ibid., pp. 188–9.<br />
5 Ibid., p. 190; C.L. White, Women’s Magazines 1693–1968, London, Michael<br />
Joseph, 1970, chapter 6; S. Rowbottom, A Century <strong>of</strong> Women: <strong>The</strong> History <strong>of</strong><br />
Women in <strong>Britain</strong> and the United States, London, Viking, 1997, pp. 242–9, 280–4.<br />
6 Heron (ed.), Truth, Dare or Promise, p. 4.<br />
7 P. Summerfield, Reconstructing Women’s Wartime Lives, Manchester, Manchester<br />
University Press, 1998, p. 259.<br />
8 Brief Encounter, starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard (dir. David Lean,<br />
Pinewood Films 1945).<br />
9 Quoted in C.L. White, <strong>The</strong> Women’s Periodical Press in <strong>Britain</strong> 1946–1976,<br />
London, HMSO, 1977, p. 10.<br />
10 Nestlé advertisement, 1951, quoted ibid.<br />
11 Ibid., p. 11.<br />
12 Monica Dickens in Women’s Own, 28 January 1961, quoted ibid., p. 11<br />
13 Ibid.<br />
14 F. Colquhoun, Harringay Story: A Detailed Account <strong>of</strong> the Greater London<br />
Crusade 1954, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1955; T. Allan, Crusade in<br />
Scotland – Billy Graham, London, Pickering & Inglis, 1955; D.P. Thomson,<br />
Visitation Evangelism in Scotland 1946–1956, Crieff, no pub., c. 1956; Parsons,<br />
‘Contrasts and continuities’, pp. 46–9.<br />
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