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THE DEATH OF
CHRISTIAN BRITAIN
PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION
‘A tremendously impressive book and wonderful social history.’
Niall Ferguson, Start the Week, Radio 4
‘This book should be read by anybody who cares about the future of reli-
gion. [Brown’s} statistics are convincing and disquieting. The personal
testimonies he quotes are moving and revealing. He shows clearly that
Christianity, as we have known it in this country, is in its death throes.’
Karen Armstrong, The Independent
‘A very brave, readable book, and a marvellous social history lesson . . .
this is a powerful wake-up call.’
Antonia Swinson, Scotland on Sunday
‘Callum Brown plunges bravely into one of the most complex debates of
our era in this engaging book. He does not claim that we are all atheists
now, but asserts that a massive shift in our self-understanding as a nation
has occurred, which has reduced Christianity to the status of an eccentric
and irrelevant sub-culture in a dynamically plural society.’
Richard Holloway, former Bishop
of Edinburgh, The Scotsman
‘Church leaders should not ignore this book.’
Patrick Comerford, Irish Times
‘A study which deserves the attention of all who are seriously concerned
either with the history or with the future of British Christianity.’
David L. Edwards, Tablet
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‘ The Death of Christian Britain is a tour de force in the social history of
religion . . . This most provocative of historians has pulled off an extraordi-
nary double feat. He has simultaneously rejected more strenuously than ever
before the long tradition of British historiography that sought to apply the
concept of secularization to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
and at once reapplied the concept exclusively and dramatically to the last
forty years. . . . The novelty of Brown’s argument lies not only in his new
chronology of secularization, but in his use of a range of evidence formerly
untouched by historians.’
Jeremy Morris, Historical Journal
‘[Callum Brown] is one of the most thought-provoking religious historians
in Britain today. . . . This is a bracing book, and a stimulating read . . . a
bold attempt to try to explain what happened to Christianity in our land
in our lifetime, and it deserves to be taken seriously.’
Frances Knight, Theology
‘This is one of the most entertaining, moving and stimulating works which
I have read upon its subject, modern British Christianity. It has the ring
of authenticity to me . . .’
Sheridan Gilley, Reviews in History
‘This 250-page book offers a highly controversial approach to the subject
of the decline of Christianity in Britain. . . . I thoroughly recommend this
book to anyone who has an interest in the decline of religion in the indus-
trialised world generally and of Christianity in particular.’
Frank Pycroft, Catholics for a Changing Church website
‘Here is a radical and highly readable account of the fortunes of Christianity
in modern Britain. . . . whether or not one agrees with Brown’s conclu-
sions, it is imperative that this highly stimulating book is read widely. I
believe it shows beyond doubt that traditional ways of interpreting
Victorian religiosity are in their death throes.’
Sarah Williams, Gospel-culture.org newsletter
‘. . . this book should be read by anybody who cares about the future of
religion. His statistics are convincing and disquieting. Brown argues that
within a generation Christianity will merely be a minority movement . . .
As we face the “death of Christian Britain” may God give us the courage
to change.’
Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Thought
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— Introduction —
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‘For anyone who is genuinely interested in the future and mission of the
Christian Church at the start of the new millennium, Callum Brown’s book
should be essential reading . . . this is quite simply a remarkable, courageous
and deeply illuminating book. And it is so for a number of crucial reasons.
First of all because Brown imagines what for many of us is the unthinkable,
namely the complete eradication of the Christian faith from our contempo-
rary social habitat if the decline in religious practice and belief continues in
this country unabated into the not too distant future. Secondly because he
breaks with the accepted thesis that this is due to an invidious process of
secularisation that started some 200 years ago and introduces new insights
from cultural theory and gender studies to throw light on the role of pub-
lic religion in contemporary society. Thirdly because Brown claims, I believe
quite rightly, that for too long we have accepted the analysis of social science
that investigates only the roles or functions religion exercises in a democratic
society.’
Colin Greene, Head of Theology and
Public Policy at The Bible Society,
The Bible in Transmission
‘This may be a text book, but it engages the mind and the soul . . . many
might even take issue with the title, and refuse to read on. But to do so
would be folly: a week spent immersed in Brown’s book could reap sub-
stantially more fruit than a series of revival meetings.’
Brian Draper, Amazon.co.uk review
‘Brown’s book is full of insight, and his appeal to the cultural forces of late
modernity as a corrosive influence on religious adherence is much more
nuanced than those one would normally encounter in sociological studies.’
The Revd Canon Professor Martyn Percy,
Ripon College, Church Times
‘Brown’s argument is persuasive and important. As someone who was born
in 1945, was sent by non-churchgoing parents to Sunday school and relent-
lessly bombarded by Christian narratives throughout both primary and
grammar schools, who studied the Bible both at school and university and
who then experienced the Sixties as an antidote to the stultifying narrow-
mindedness and respectability-worship of the Fifties, I repeatedly recognise
elements of his analysis as realities I have lived through.’
Richard Poole, Planet
‘Callum Brown has written a defining text in the debate about secularisa-
tion, and a text that every Christian leader should read, then read again.’
Crawford Gribben, Christianity and Society
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