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Through a glass darkly? Modern Catholicism in Britain and Ireland through the Catholicism in Numbers datasets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 December 2024

Alana Harris ,
Timothea Kinnear  and
Liam Temple
Alana Harris*
Affiliation:
King’s College London
Timothea Kinnear
Affiliation:
St Mary’s Twickenham
Liam Temple
Affiliation:
Durham University
*
Email: alana.harris@kcl.ac.uk
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statisticsquantitative methodschurch attendancesecularisationCatholic schools
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British Catholic History , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , May 2024 , pp. 43 - 53
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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Trustees of the Catholic Record Society

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References

1 Alana Harris, ed. The Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism: Volume V: Recapturing the Apostolate of the Laity 1914-2021 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023).

2 Robert Currie, Alan Gilbert and Lee Horsley, Churches and Churchgoers: Patterns of Church Growth in the British Isles since 1700 (Oxford: Clarendon Press,1977).

3 A. H. Halsey and Josephine Webb, Twentieth-century British Social Trends (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000).

4 Steve Bruce, Secularization: In Defence of an Unfashionable Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011) and British Gods: Religion in Modern Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020).

5 Eric Kaufmann, Anne Goujon and Vegard Skirbekk, ‘The End of Secularization in Europe?: A Socio-Demographic Perspective’, Sociology of Religion, 73(1)(2012): 69-91.

6 Rodney Stark and Roger Finke, Acts of Faith Explaining the Human Side of Religion. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000).

7 Meredith McGuire, Lived Religion: Faith and Practice in Everyday Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), Nancy Tatom Ammerman, Studying Lived Religion: Contexts and Practices (New York: New York University Press, 2021), Avril Baigent and Marcus Pound, ‘Why do we need Lived Catholicism?’, Ecclesial Practices, 9(1)(2022), 1-8 and 9-27.

8 James R. Lewis, Sects & Stats: Overturning the Conventional Wisdom about Cult Members (Sheffield: Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2014).

9 For fuller information on the datasets used, see the link to the bibliography and methodological note at https://www.crs.org.uk/catholicism-in-numbers (accessed 19 February 2024).

10 Anthony E. C. W. Spencer, ed., Digest of Statistics of the Catholic Community of England & Wales, 1958-2005. Volume I: Population and Vital Statistics, Pastoral Services, Evangelisation and Education (Taunton: Russell-Spencer Ltd, 2007).

11 https://www.brierleyconsultancy.com (accessed 19 February 2024).

12 http://www.brin.ac.uk, (accessed 19 February 2024).

13 https://lms.org.uk/statistics (accessed 19 February 2024).

14 Ben Clements and Stephen Bullivant, Catholics in Contemporary Britain: Faith, Society, Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022).

15 https://www.stmarys.ac.uk/research/centres/benedict-xvi/about.aspx (accessed 19 February 2024).

16 https://www.crs.org.uk/catholicism-in-numbers (accessed 19 February 2024).

17 Harris, ed. The Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism: Volume V, 357-76.

18 Peter Brierley, ed. UK Christian Handbook Religious Trends No. 7 2007/2008 (Swindon: Christian Research, 2008), 8.7.

19 While the earliest publications in the Record Series referred specifically to material on ‘English Catholics’, the CRS and BCH have gradually evolved to include material and research relating to Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, as well as connections between British and Irish Catholics and the wider global Catholic Church.

20 See his ‘Introduction’ in Catholic Record Society Miscellanea I (London: Catholic Record Society, 1905), p. viii.

21 https://digitalcollections.newmanstudies.org/ (accessed 19 February 2024).

22 https://wwtn.history.qmul.ac.uk (accessed 19 February 2024).

23 https://www.durham.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/monks-in-motion/ (accessed 19 February 2024).

24 https://archive.catholic-heritage.net/ (accessed 19 February 2024).

25 The Venerable English College is currently fundraising for important work in this area, see https://www.vecarchives.org/ (accessed 19 February 2024).

26 https://digi.vatlib.it/ (accessed 3 January 2024).

27 See James Chappel, Catholic Modern: The Challenge of Totalitarianism and the Remaking of the Church (New Haven: Harvard University Press, 2018) and Brenna Moore, Kindred Spirits: Friendship and Resistance at the Edges of Modern Catholicism (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2021).