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10 C.G. Brown, ‘“Best not to take it too far”: how the British cut religion down to
size’, www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-aboutfaith/britain_religion_3335
.jsp, 8 March 2006.
11 For the theory of gender as a category of analysis, see J. Scott, Gender and
the Politics of History, New York, Columbia University Press, 1988.
12 S. Williams, ‘The language of belief: an alternative agenda for the study of
Victorian working-class religion’, Journal of Victorian Culture, vol. 1, 1996,
pp. 303–17.
13 After an initial outing of these ideas in a conference paper in 1997, the book
was researched during late 1997 and 1998 and the first draft completed in March
1999. The revised paper appeared later as C.G. Brown, ‘The secularisation
decade: what the 1960s have done to the study of religious history’, in H.
McLeod and W. Ustorf (eds), The Decline of Christendom in Western Europe
1750–2000, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 29–46.
14 Book review, Histoire Sociale – Social History, vol. xxxvi, 2003, pp. 257–60; J.
Morris, ‘The strange death of Christian Britain: another look at the secularization
debate’, Historical Journal, vol. 46, 2003, pp. 963–76, at pp. 970–6;
Monica Furlong, book review, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, vol. 54, 2003,
pp. 184–5; David Fergusson, book review, Scottish Economic and Social History,
vol. 21, 2001, p. 75.
15 Sheridan Gilley, Reviews in History, December 2001, www.history.ac.uk/
reviews/paper/gilleys.html.
16 D.W. Bebbington, Victorian Nonconformity, Bangor, Headstart, 1992.
17 P. Joyce, Visions of the People: Industrial England and the Question of Class,
1848–1914, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991; P. Pasture, ‘The
role of religion in social and labour history’, in L.H. van Voss and M. van der
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Writing of European Labour History, New York and Oxford, Berghahn Books,
2002, pp. 116–17. See also Pasture’s Introduction in L.H. van Voss, P. Pasture
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Christian Labour in Europe 1840–2000, Bern, Peter Lang, 2005.
18 Gerald Wayne Olsen, book review, Histoire Sociale – Social History, vol. xxxvi,
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19 Logan, The Spectator, 14 April 2001.
20 Gilley, Reviews in History; letter to the author dated 11 February 2001.
21 D. Nash, ‘Reconnecting religion with social and cultural history: secularization’s
failure as a master narrative’, Cultural and Social History, vol. 1, 2004,
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22 R.D. Kernohan, Contemporary Review, April 2002, p. 246.
23 H. McLeod, The Religious Crisis of the 1960s, Oxford, Oxford University Press,
2007, p. 243.
24 Letter to the author, 30 May 2006.
25 J. Garnett, M. Grimley, A. Harris, W. Whyte and S. Williams (eds), Redefining
Christian Britain: Post 1945 Perspectives, London, SCM Press, 2006, p. 5.
26 Williams, www.gospel-culture.org.uk.
27 Williams, ‘The language of belief’.
28 Williams, www.gospel-culture.org.uk.
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