Britain’s Last Religious Revival?: Quantifying Belonging, Behaving, and Believing in the Long 1950s (Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700–2000)

This is a major contribution to scholarly debates on the chronology and nature of secularization in modern Britain. Combining historical and social scientific insights, it analyses a range of statistical evidence for the ‘long 1950s’, testing (and largely rejecting) Callum Brown’s claims that there was a religious resurgence during this period.