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Anglican Attendances
attendances
Author_Robin Gill
British churchgoing patterns
British culture
British religious decline
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Catholic Attendances
Church
church attendance statistics
church building activity
Church Buildings
Church Decline
Church Seating
churches
churchgoing
Churchgoing Decline
Churchgoing Rate
clergy
Clergy Returns
decline
Empty Churches
England Attendances
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Fine Day
free
Free Church
Free Church Attendances
Free Church Chapels
historical churchgoing patterns
Marc Europe
Morning Attenders
Morning Congregations
North Northumberland
rate
religious decline
religious demography UK
school
secularisation debate
secularization
sociology of religion
St Michael Le Belfrey
sunday
Sunday School
Sunday School Attendances
United Reformed Church
Urban Churchgoing
urbanisation and worship
visitation
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780754634638
- Weight: 495g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Sep 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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When did churches start to appear more empty than full - and why? The very physicality of largely empty churches and chapels in Britain plays a powerful role in popular perceptions of 'religion'. Empty churches are frequently cited in the media as evidence of large scale religious decline. The 'Empty' Church Revisited presents a systematic account of British churchgoing patterns over the last two hundred years, uncovering the factors and the statistics behind the considerable process of decline in church attendence. Dispelling as myth the commonly held views that the process of secularization in British culture has led to the decline in churchgoing and resulted in the predominantly empty churches of today, Gill points to physical factors, economics and issues of social space to shed new light on the origins of empty churches. This thoroughly updated edition of Robin Gill's earlier work, The Myth of the Empty Church, presents new data throughout to explore afresh the paradox of church building activity in a context of decline, the patterns of urbanisation followed by sub-urbanisation affecting churches, changes in patterns of worship, and changes within the sociology of religion in the last decade.
Robin Gill, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK
