The Death of Christian Britain
The Death of Christian Britain
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— Notes to pages 209–213 —<br />
50 Ibid.<br />
51 <strong>Christian</strong>ity and Society, April 2004, pp. 30–31.<br />
52 Herbert, Religion and Civil Society, p. 22.<br />
53 Morris, ‘Strange <strong>Death</strong>’, p. 969; Brown, Postmodernism, pp. 66–7; though, on<br />
the present, cf. Z. Bauman, Liquid Life, Cambridge, Polity, 2005.<br />
54 Actually, the Lerwick case is complex and exceptional in <strong>Britain</strong>; see L. Abrams,<br />
Myth and Materiality in a Woman’s World: Shetland 1800–2000, Manchester,<br />
Manchester University Press, 2003.<br />
55 D. Riley, ‘“<strong>The</strong> free mothers”: pronatalism and working women in industry at<br />
the end <strong>of</strong> the last war in <strong>Britain</strong>’, History Workshop Journal, Spring 1981, pp.<br />
59–118. Employers had a different attitude, wanting cheap female labour to<br />
make good the shortfall <strong>of</strong> male workers.<br />
56 C.G. Brown, ‘Gendering secularisation: locating women in the transformation<br />
<strong>of</strong> British <strong>Christian</strong>ity in the 1960s’, forthcoming, in G. Stedman Jones and I.<br />
Katznelson (eds), Title tba.<br />
57 C.G. Brown, Religion and Society in Twentieth-century <strong>Britain</strong>, Harlow,<br />
PearsonLongman, 2006, pp. 44–5, 101, 149–50, 153–61.<br />
58 Histoire Sociale – Social History, vol. xxxvi, 2003, pp. 257–60.<br />
59 See also A. Crockett and D. Voas, ‘Generations <strong>of</strong> decline: religious change in<br />
20th-century <strong>Britain</strong>’, Journal for the Scientific Study <strong>of</strong> Religion, vol. 45, 2006,<br />
pp. 567–84.<br />
60 McLeod, Religious Crisis, pp. 16–18. See the critique <strong>of</strong> Pasture and the present<br />
author in H. McLeod, ‘<strong>The</strong> crisis <strong>of</strong> <strong>Christian</strong>ity in the west’, in H. McLeod<br />
(ed.), <strong>The</strong> Cambridge History <strong>of</strong> <strong>Christian</strong>ity, vol. 9: World <strong>Christian</strong>ities,<br />
c.1914–c.2000, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 328–9.<br />
61 Blaschke (ed.), Konfessionen im Konflikt.<br />
62 D. Entwistle, ‘“Hope, Colour and Comradeship”: loyalty and opportunism in<br />
early twentieth-century church attendance among the working class in north<br />
west England’, Journal <strong>of</strong> Religious History, vol. 25, 2001, pp. 20–38, at p. 38.<br />
63 M.C. Martin, ‘Relationships human and divine: retribution and repentance in<br />
children’s lives, 1740–1870’, in K. Cooper and J. Gregory (eds), Retribution,<br />
Repentance and Reconciliation, London, Boydell Press, 2004, pp. 253–65, at<br />
pp. 253–4, 264.<br />
64 See M. Sissons and P. French (eds), <strong>The</strong> Age <strong>of</strong> Austerity, 1945–51, London,<br />
Hodder and Stoughton, 1963; and D. Kynaston, Austerity <strong>Britain</strong> 1945–51,<br />
London, Bloomsbury, 2007.<br />
65 D. Sandbrook, Never Had It So Good: A History <strong>of</strong> <strong>Britain</strong> from Suez to the<br />
Beatles, London, Little Brown, 2005; M. Jarvis, Conservative Governments,<br />
Morality and Social Change, 1957–64, Manchester, Manchester University<br />
Press, 2005.<br />
66 Data from Sandbrook, Never Had It So Good, pp. 114, 360–61; www.<br />
dft.gov.uk/pgr/roads/environment/cvtf/theenvironmentalimpacts<strong>of</strong>roa3793?<br />
page=2; and www.statistics.gov.uk/STATBASE/xsdataset.asp?More=Y&vlnk<br />
=1459&All=Y&B2.x=84&B2.y=10.<br />
67 S.J.D. Green, ‘Was there an English religious revival in the 1950s?’, Journal <strong>of</strong><br />
the United Reformed Church History Society, vol. 7, 2006, pp. 517–38, at p.<br />
520.<br />
68 See p. 170; also McLeod, Religious Crisis, p. 38.<br />
69 Green, ‘English religious revival’, p. 529.<br />
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