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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 — Index — 303 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
women: and evangelicalism 42; and foreign missions 63; as mothers 5, 62–4, 105–7; reading for 53, 67, 171–2; and secularisation 9–10, 191–2; as spinsters 8, 85–6; as wives 5, 62; and work 89; see also female piety, feminism, domestic servants, Sunday lunch Wordsworth, William 19, 66 — Index — 304 working classes 9, 20, 23–4, 27–8, 41–2, 48–9, 142–4, 149–56 World War I 85, 87, 103–5, 107 World War II 83–4, 104, 144, 170–1 YMCA 45, 97 York 154 Yorkshire pudding see Sunday lunch YWCA 45, 86
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The Death of Christian Britain PRA
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‘For anyone who is genuinely inte
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The Death of Christian Britain Und
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Contents List of illustrations ix
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illustrations FIGURES 7.1 Church o
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— Acknowledgements — University
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note on oral history The oral-hist
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Chapter one Introduction This book
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— Introduction — no new credo,
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— Introduction — 365 in 1981 an
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— Introduction — Historians hav
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Chapter three The Salvation Economy
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Chapter nine The End of a Long Stor
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Chapter Ten Postscript: the mortali
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