Part I. Outline of the Problem: 1. Towards a social history of religion in
modern Britain: secularisation theory, religious change and the fate of
Protestant England; 2. Religion in the twilight zone: a narrative of
religious decline and religious change in Britain, c.1920-60; Part II.
Disclosures of Decline: 3. The 'soul of England' in an 'age of
disintegration': Dean Inge and the 'trial of the churches' in the wake of
World War I; 4. The strange death of Puritan England; 5. Social science and
the discovery of a post-Protestant people: Rowntree's surveys of York and
their other legacy; Part III. Resistance, Revival and Resignation: 6. The
1944 Education Act: a church-state perspective; 7. Was there an English
religious revival in the 1950s?; 8. Slouching towards a secular society:
expert analysis and lay opinion in the early 1960s; Conclusion: the passing
of Protestant England.