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— Notes to pages 185–193 — 56 W. Foley, A Child in the Forest, London, Futura, 1977; L. Beckwith, The Hills is Lonely, The Sea for Breakfast, London, Arrow, 1972, several others about the Highlands, and her About My Father’s Business, London, Arrow, 1973 about Cheshire; F. Thompson, Larkrise to Candleford, orig. 1945, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1973. 57 V. Massey, One Child’s War, London, BBC, 1983; E. Hall, Canary Girls and Stockpots, Luton, 1977; M. Hobbs, Born to Struggle, London, 1973. 58 C. Taylor, Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1989, pp. 491–2; and advance publicity sheet for Charles Taylor’s Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh, April– May 1999. 59 L. Passerini, Fascism in Popular Memory: The Cultural Experience of the Turin Working Class, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1987; R. Hutton, ‘The English Reformation and the evidence of folklore’, Past and Present, 1995, no. 148, p. 114. 60 R. Towler, The Need for Certainty: A Sociological Study of Conventional Religion, London, RKP, 1984. 61 See for instance J. Green, Days in the Life: Voices from the English Underground 1961–1971, London, Pimlico, 1998. 62 S. Bruce, ‘Religion in Britain at the close of the 20th century: a challenge to the silver lining perspective’, Journal of Contemporary Religion, 1996, vol. 11, 269–71. 63 (A. Robertson), Lifestyle Survey, Edinburgh, Church of Scotland, 1987. 64 See for instance H. McLeod, Religion and the People of Western Europe 1789–1989, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1997, 134–43; P.A. Welsby, A History of the Church of England 1945–1980, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1984, pp. 97–106; D. Hilliard, ‘The religious crisis of the 1960s: the experience of the Australian churches’, Journal of Religious History, 1997, vol. 21; I. Machin, ‘British churches and moral change in the 1960s’, in W.M. Jacob and N. Yates (eds), Religion and Society in Northern Europe since the Reformation, Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 1993; S. Gilley and W.J. Sheils (eds), A History of Religion in Britain, Oxford, Blackwell, 1994, esp. pp. 467–521. 65 In Falkirk in the 1960s only 40 per cent of non-churchgoing teenagers expressed a belief in God compared to 75 per cent for churchgoers; boys were even more secularised, with bizarre scores of 37 per cent for churchgoers and 47 per cent for non-churchgoers. P.L. Sissons, The Social Significance of Church Membership in the Burgh of Falkirk, Edinburgh, Church of Scotland, 1973, p. 325. 9 THE END OF A LONG STORY 1 The most recent and jarring example of this failure is Steve Bruce, who writes: ‘Social historians of religion disagree about the precise shape of the curve [of religious growth and decline] and the placing of the peak, but, whatever objection they may raise to this or that measure, they are agreed that there are now far fewer church members and church-goers than there were in 1950, 1900, 1850, or 1800.’ S. Bruce, Religion in the Modern World: From Cathedrals to Cults, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1996, p. 31. 267
— Notes to pages 194–201 — 2 On his argument against modelling ‘the study of man on the natural sciences’, see C. Taylor, Human Agency and Language: Philosophical Papers I, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1985, pp. 1–3, 103. 3 C. Taylor, Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1989, pp. 491–2. 4 Ibid., pp. 93–4, 97–107. 5 For those who understand this for Britain, see B. Hilton, The Age of Atonement: The Influence of Evangelicalism on Social and Economic Thought, 1795–1865, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1988; and D. Bebbington, Evangelicalism in Modern Britain, London, Unwin Hyman, 1989, esp. pp. 50–63. For one who understands precisely the same for Norway at the same period, see N. Witoszek, ‘Fugitives from Utopia: the Scandinavian Enlightenment reconsidered’, in O. Sorensen and B. Strath (eds), The Cultural Construction of Nordern, Oslo, Scandinavian University Press, 1997. 6 J.R. Carrette, Foucault and Religion: Spiritual Corporality and Political Spirituality, London, Routledge, 2000, p. 152. For a collection of views from the world of religious studies, see P. Heelas (ed.), Religion, Modernity and Postmodernity, Oxford, Blackwell, 1998. 7 Ian Bradley, Church of Scotland minister and Head of Religious Broadcasting at BBC Scotland, posited in 1992 that ‘the nineties will be a religious decade’. I. Bradley, Marching to the Promised Land: Has the Church a Future?, London, John Murray, 1992, p. 204. 8 Foucault quoted in Carrette, Foucault, p. 149. 9 See for example p. 229, n. 18. 10 POSTSCRIPT: THE MORTALITY OF CHRISTIAN BRITAIN RECONSIDERED 1 www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,35306,00.html. 2 Letter to the author, 12 January 2003. 3 M. Grimley, book review, Twentieth Century British History, vol. 19, 2008, pp. 383–4. 4 Monica Furlong, book review, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, vol. 54, 2003, pp. 184–5. 5 See for instance ‘A not so critical response to Callum Brown’s Death of Christian Britain’, at http://unsanitaryjesus.wordpress.com. 6 Book review, The Spectator, 14 April 2001. 7 Sarah Williams, www.gospel-culture.org.uk, Newsletter 33, Spring 2002. 8 One of the best understandings and elaborations of my book and its arguments is from the course material for the Open University course AA307, ‘Religion in History’, and notably G. Parsons, AA307 Study Guide 4: The Death of Christian Britain: Exploring a Thesis, Milton Keynes, Open University, 2005. 9 Note the absence of any chapter on religion, or indeed any meaningful reference to religion or churches, amongst the thirty chapters in Paul Addison and Harriet Jones (eds), A Companion to Contemporary Britain, 1939–2000, Oxford, Blackwell Publishing, 2005. 268
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