Preliminaries; Contents; List of Tables; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part One: The theoretical Context; Churchgoing and the bias of virtue ethicists; Churchgoing and the bias of sociologists; Four theories of churchgoing; Part Two: The Evidence; The British Household Panel Survey; Faith in British Social Attitudes surveys; Moral order in British Social Attitudes surveys; Love in British Social Attitudes survey; Part Three: The Implications; Churchgoing and Christian identity; Churches and moral disagreement; Postscript; Works cited; Index
Summary
This book examines new evidence about church communities, and it shows that churchgoers are distinctive in their attitudes, beliefs and behaviour. However, these are shared by many non-churchgoers as well. The distinctiveness of church communities in the modern world is thus real but relative, and is central to Christian ethics
