The Death of Christian Britain

social science of religion 24–5, 38, 90,
206n.8; shortcomings of viii, 11–14,
149, 176, 193–5, 205n.83
sociology of religion 10, 231n.1; see
also secularisation, theory of
soldiers, evangelising amongst 93;
religiosity of 104
Soldier’s Scripture Union 47
Southey, Robert 19
Spain 5
sport and religion 41, 86, 97–8, 107–8
Spurgeon, Revd C.H. 97
Stalin, Joseph 104
Stanley, L. 136
statistics: evangelicalism’s mania for
25–7, 32–3; problems with using
11–13; of urban religion 145–9
Stayley Bridge 61
Stead, W. 26
Steedman, Carolyn 174–5
Stevenson, Robert Louis 112
Stirling 49–50, 140, 156–7
story-telling see narratives
Stow, David 46–8
street preaching 48
students 176
stunting of religion 116–17, 181–5
subjectification 13–14, 115–40, 219n.6
Summerfield, Penny 170–1
Sunday 2, 7, 17, 20, 41, 45–6, 118, 120,
131, 133, 142–4, 182, 223n.132; dress
79, 120, 129–30, 138–9, 142 (see also
advertisements); lunch 133–4, 142,
144, 159–61; weddings 132
Sunday schools 1, 20, 22, 39, 44, 49,
54, 129–30, 134, 141, 175; attendance
rates at 3, 140, 148, 166, 168–9,
187–8; teachers 96–7, 221n.61
‘superstition’ see folk religion
Swan, Annie S. 75, 104
Taylor, Charles 33, 193–6
television 5, 178, 197
temperance movement 29, 40–1, 46,
55–6, 62–3, 83, 107, 111; in oral
testimony 118–20, 131, 143
Thackeray, William 70, 81, 119, 141
theatres 52
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Thompson, E.P. 18
Thomson, James 26
thrift 5, 45, 85
total abstinence see temperance
movement
tourism, religious see religious
tourism
tracts: distribution of 44–6, 51–2,
96; for men 93–6; oral testimony
reflexive to 118–19; publishing
of 49–52, 212n.86; societies 45;
against sport 97
trench religion 104
Trollope, Anthony 53, 101
United Free Church 163
United Secession Church see
Seceders
United States 3, 5, 10, 46, 59, 196–7
urbanisation 8–9; impact on religion
18–30, 145–9
Vatican II 190
Vincent, David 125
virginity 135, 174, 176–80
voluntary organisations 4, 39–40,
43–6; see also Band of Hope, Band
of Love, Sunday schools
Volunteers 88, 96
Wales 6–7, 16, 83, 96, 137, 139–41
Walkowitz, Judith 70
Wardlaw, Revd Ralph 45
Watson, Mrs Sydney 128
Watson, Sydney 108
Watt, Christian 125
weather and churchgoing 155
weddings see Sunday weddings
Weir, Molly 129, 131–2, 185
welfare state 6, 170, 175
Wesley, John 36–7, 54, 99, 142
Wesleyan Methodism see Methodism
White, Cynthia 172, 177
Wickham, E.R. 26–7, 202n.23
Wilberforce, William 24, 36
Williams, Sarah 29, 135–6
witch-hunts 58
Woman’s Guild 68