The Death of Christian Britain

Plymouth Brethren see Brethren
poetry 18–19, 112–13
pop music see music, pop
positivism see empiricism
post-modernity 176, 193–5
poverty and religion 123–4
pregnancy see childbirth
pre-industrial society, religion in 10,
16–18, 36
Presbyterian Church in Wales 188
presbyterianism 21, 37, 54, 56
Presley, Elvis 174
Preston 63, 124
Primitive Methodist see Methodism
prohibition see temperance movement
Proops, Marje 177
prostitution 25, 46
protocols: of religious discourse 13–14;
see also Sunday lunch
psalmody see music, religious
psychology of religion 33
public houses 50, 89; see also
temperance movement
Queen Elizabeth II, coronation of 5
racism 76–7
Raikes, Robert 20, 45
rational recreation 52–3
Rayner, Clare 177
Reformation 1, 3
Relief Church 99
religion, definitions of 29–30, 32–3, 37,
43
religious belief: nature of 5, 7, 199n.3;
rates of 4, 190, 198, 231n.65
religious decline, concept of 1, 7;
problems with 3, 10–11, 16–34
religious growth 5, 9
religious tourism 4
Religious Tract Society see London
Religious Tract Society
respectability 2, 5, 66, 104, 174, 177–8,
180, 190, 192, 222n.84
revivals 96, 172–4
Rhondda 137
Ricardo 23, 31
Roberts, Elizabeth 175
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302
Roman Catholic Church 4, 42–3, 56,
131, 133, 136–7, 140; attendances at
150, 157, 161; shortage of priests in
4
romance 72, 78, 82, 141, 178–9; in
churches 132
Rowntree, Seebohm 26, 154
sailors 107, 123
sailor’s suit see Sunday dress
Salvation Army 55, 88, 124, 131,
137–8, 142–3, 161
Sankey, Ira 54, 56, 97, 138
Scandinavia 5, 51 see also Norway
Scannell, Dolly 137, 185
Scotland 6–7, 39, 83, 133, 140, 147,
164–6, 187–9
Scott, Walter 19, 67, 70–1, 119, 141
Scouts 96, 131, 174
Seceders 44, 99
secularisation, theory of viii, 3, 8–10,
13–15, 29; attacks on 28–9, as
discourse 33; intellectual poverty of
30–4
secularism 17, 28; weakness of in
Britain 3
self see identities
self-improvement 41
separate spheres 42, 59
servants see domestic servants
sexual activity see virginity
Sheffield 21, 26–7, 35
Sherwell, Arthur 160
‘She’s Leaving Home’ (song) 179
Shetland 136
Sikh religion 2
sin for men 84, 87, 89–91, 105–8
sin for women 61–2, 64, 77, 134–5,
222n.84
sites of discourse 31
Skinner, V.M. 50
Smiles, Samuel 103, 113
Smith, Adam 24, 31
Smollett, Tobias 18
Snell, K.D.M. 154
social class see working classes, middle
classes
social composition analysis 153–55