David<strong>of</strong>f, Leonora 29 Davie, Grace 5 deaconesses 68 Deanston, Perthshire 21 death rate 151–3 Dennis, R. 154–6 Derby day 95 Dickens, Charles 54, 67, 70, 81, 101–2, 119, 141 dietary protocols see Sunday lunch discourse change 117, 175–86, 195–6 discourse, definition <strong>of</strong> 31, 72 discursive <strong>Christian</strong>ity see <strong>Christian</strong>ity dissent see Methodism, presbyterians, nonconformity district visitation 43, 46–9, 138 divorce 176, 190 Dixon, jay 82 domestic ideology 42, 59, 133, 170–3, 207n.26 domestic servants 118, 120, 131, 133, 151–5, 157–61 drink see public houses, temperance movement drugs 174–5 Drummond, Henry 26 Drummond, Peter 49–50, 52 Dublin 46 Dunlop, John 40–1 Eco, Umberto 71–2, 74 economies 36 ecumenism 3, 190 Edinburgh 23–5, 173, 180 education 5; see also art colleges Edwards, Jonathan 126 Eliot, George 102 empiricism 11, 30–1 Engels, Friedrich 205n.82 England 6–7, 16, 83, 132, 134, 147 English Mechanic 109 Enlightenment 1, 3, 11–12, 30–3, 36, 38, 195 Epsom Downs racecourse 95 Ermarth, Elizabeth 70, 81–2, 101–2 Essex 141–2 ethnicity 2, 76–7 Eton suit see Sunday dress — Index — 299 Europe 3, 196–7 evangelical narrative structure see narrative structure, evangelical Evangelical Union 100 evangelicalism 20–1, 37–8; as democracy 38, 43, 56–7, 110; as social policy 41; see also conversion evangelisation 22, 39; scientific organisation <strong>of</strong> 47; see also home missions, foreign missions exteriority, religious spaces <strong>of</strong> 31, 59 Falkirk 155, 231n.65 female piety 42–3, 58–87, 127–36, 156–69, 170–4, 179–80, 191–2, 195 femininity, in male piety 108 feminism 29, 190, 197 Ferguson, Revd Fergus 100 Fergusson, Robert 18 fiction see novels Field, Clive 154 film see cinema Foakes, Grace 134 Foley, Alice 128 Foley, Winfred 128, 135, 185 folk religion 11, 135–6 food see Sunday lunch foreign missions 21–2, 39; women working in 68; men depicted in 103 Foucault, Michel 31, 72, 197 France 5, 21 Free Church <strong>of</strong> Scotland 22, 67 Free Presbyterian Church 101 French Revolution (1789) 21–2, 36–7 Frye, Northrop 71, 212n.69–70 Galt, John 100 gambling 84, 89, 95, 98, 105, 113–14, 139–40 Garden City movement 26 Gaskell, Elizabeth 101 gay sexuality 8, 176, 190; clergy 4 gender and religion 9–10, 42, 156–61, 196; see also men, women Germany 5 Gilbert, Alan 28, 154, 163, 201n.2
Girl Guides 131 Girl’s Own Paper 64, 85–6, 113, 141 Glasgow 6, 20, 22–6, 30, 40, 45–8, 97–8, 129, 131, 149; statistics <strong>of</strong> religion in 145–6, 172–4 Glasgow Foundry Boys’ Religious Society 96 Glasgow Missionary Society 39 gossip see sin for women Graham, Revd Dr Billy 5–6, 126, 172–4, 229n.18 Gravesend 122 Greenock 41 Hall, Catherine 29 Hall, Edith 134 Hampstead 149 Harrogate 139 ‘heathens’, discourse on 21, 43–4, 90–1, 204n.61 Hebrides 17, 155 Heimann, Mary 42–3 hell 96 Hempton, David 29 Herdman, M.S.S. 47 Heron, Liz 171 Highlands 17, 20–1, 137, 155 Hillis, Peter 154 Hilton, Boyd 36 Hinduism 2 Home, Evelyn 172 home missions 21–5, 32, 44–5, 131, 134, 202n.23 homosexuality see gay sexuality Honest to God debate 186, 190 Hood, Revd Robert 100–1 horse-racing 52 Huddersfield 154–6 Huntingdon 50 hymns see music, religious identities 2, 7, 14 industrial revolution 1 industrialisation 8–9, 17–18, 20–2 infant mortality rate 151–3 Inglis, K.S. 27 Irish immigrants 150 Islam 2, 4, 7 — Index — 300 Jack the Ripper 26 Jackie 176–7, 179 James, William 33, 205n.83 Jarvis, Adrian 103 Jeffrey, Linda 154, 226n.47 Jews see Judaism journals 52–4, 113, 176–8 Joyce, Patrick 70 Judaism 7 Kailyard novels 101 Kay, J.P. 21, 54 Keighley 143 Kent, John 27, 149–50 Kingsley, Charles 112 Kitson Clark, G. 27 Lady Chatterley’s Lover, trial <strong>of</strong> 176 Lancashire 122–3 Lancaster 124 landowners 17–18, 20 language 25, 90 see also ‘heathens’ Laslett, Peter 201n.1 Leeds 118–21 Leicester 41, 162 Lennon, John 174 letters 127–8 Lewis, Isle <strong>of</strong> 126 Light, Alison 84 Liverpool 46, 136–9, 162 London 6, 18–19, 24–6, 28, 46–8, 126, 130, 134, 137, 140, 142, 150–1; religious census <strong>of</strong> (1902–3) 148–61, 172–4 London City Mission 46 London Missionary Society 45, 55 London Religious Tract Society 49, 54, 113 Lord’s Prayer 142 Loughborough 41 Lyotard, Jean-François 31–2, 176 McCartney, Paul 174–5 McEwan, Ian 69 Macfarlane, Revd Donald 101 Macgill, Revd Dr. Stevenson 40 Maclaren, Iain 102
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