The Death of Christian Britain
The Death of Christian Britain
The Death of Christian Britain
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— Notes to pages 194–201 —<br />
2 On his argument against modelling ‘the study <strong>of</strong> man on the natural sciences’,<br />
see C. Taylor, Human Agency and Language: Philosophical Papers I, Cambridge,<br />
Cambridge University Press, 1985, pp. 1–3, 103.<br />
3 C. Taylor, Sources <strong>of</strong> the Self: <strong>The</strong> Making <strong>of</strong> the Modern Identity, Cambridge,<br />
Mass., Harvard University Press, 1989, pp. 491–2.<br />
4 Ibid., pp. 93–4, 97–107.<br />
5 For those who understand this for <strong>Britain</strong>, see B. Hilton, <strong>The</strong> Age <strong>of</strong><br />
Atonement: <strong>The</strong> Influence <strong>of</strong> Evangelicalism on Social and Economic Thought,<br />
1795–1865, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1988; and D. Bebbington, Evangelicalism<br />
in Modern <strong>Britain</strong>, London, Unwin Hyman, 1989, esp. pp. 50–63. For one<br />
who understands precisely the same for Norway at the same period, see N.<br />
Witoszek, ‘Fugitives from Utopia: the Scandinavian Enlightenment reconsidered’,<br />
in O. Sorensen and B. Strath (eds), <strong>The</strong> Cultural Construction <strong>of</strong> Nordern,<br />
Oslo, Scandinavian University Press, 1997.<br />
6 J.R. Carrette, Foucault and Religion: Spiritual Corporality and Political<br />
Spirituality, London, Routledge, 2000, p. 152. For a collection <strong>of</strong> views from<br />
the world <strong>of</strong> religious studies, see P. Heelas (ed.), Religion, Modernity and<br />
Postmodernity, Oxford, Blackwell, 1998.<br />
7 Ian Bradley, Church <strong>of</strong> Scotland minister and Head <strong>of</strong> Religious Broadcasting<br />
at BBC Scotland, posited in 1992 that ‘the nineties will be a religious decade’.<br />
I. Bradley, Marching to the Promised Land: Has the Church a Future?, London,<br />
John Murray, 1992, p. 204.<br />
8 Foucault quoted in Carrette, Foucault, p. 149.<br />
9 See for example p. 229, n. 18.<br />
10 POSTSCRIPT: THE MORTALITY OF CHRISTIAN<br />
BRITAIN RECONSIDERED<br />
1 www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,35306,00.html.<br />
2 Letter to the author, 12 January 2003.<br />
3 M. Grimley, book review, Twentieth Century British History, vol. 19, 2008,<br />
pp. 383–4.<br />
4 Monica Furlong, book review, Journal <strong>of</strong> Ecclesiastical History, vol. 54, 2003,<br />
pp. 184–5.<br />
5 See for instance ‘A not so critical response to Callum Brown’s <strong>Death</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Christian</strong> <strong>Britain</strong>’, at http://unsanitaryjesus.wordpress.com.<br />
6 Book review, <strong>The</strong> Spectator, 14 April 2001.<br />
7 Sarah Williams, www.gospel-culture.org.uk, Newsletter 33, Spring 2002.<br />
8 One <strong>of</strong> the best understandings and elaborations <strong>of</strong> my book and its arguments<br />
is from the course material for the Open University course AA307, ‘Religion<br />
in History’, and notably G. Parsons, AA307 Study Guide 4: <strong>The</strong> <strong>Death</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Christian</strong> <strong>Britain</strong>: Exploring a <strong>The</strong>sis, Milton Keynes, Open University, 2005.<br />
9 Note the absence <strong>of</strong> any chapter on religion, or indeed any meaningful reference<br />
to religion or churches, amongst the thirty chapters in Paul Addison and<br />
Harriet Jones (eds), A Companion to Contemporary <strong>Britain</strong>, 1939–2000, Oxford,<br />
Blackwell Publishing, 2005.<br />
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