And here are details of another book about the English being penned by author, broadcaster and journalist Cole Moreton, which is due to be published next Spring. It’s called ‘Is God Still an Englishmen – How we lost our faith (but found new soul)’.

Moreton has a website and blog for the book, which you can read here.

And here’s his blurb-

“Who are we? What do we believe in? Where are we going?

Those questions used to be easy to answer, but there has been a revolution. The God who ruled over us for five hundred years has been overthrown. The soul of England has been transformed, almost without anybody noticing. Gone are the shared values that once made school children rise and sing ‘All Things Bright and Beautiful’. Gone is the confidence of a nation that seemed so sure of itself and what it believed in, even as recently as the wedding of Charles and Diana, our last great festival of certainty.

Since then the number of people who go to church on Sunday has halved. More of us go to IKEA. Millions still believe in God but never want to go near a pew again. We have completely lost faith in the Christianity on which our nation was built, the religion – so bound up with class and power – that shaped our myths and legends, our laws and government, our language, literature, art and culture. Why have we turned away, and what does it mean?

The long-predicted death of the established Church has already happened, argues Moreton, himself a former teenage fundamentalist. He uncovers the battles, blunders, sex scandals and financial disasters that caused it. But this extraordinary story is about all of us, not just the Christians. Can a new national identity emerge, now that we have a thousand gods instead of just one? Moreton says yes. From the miners’ strike to the climate camp, and from Hillsborough to the funeral of Jade Goody, he reveals how a constantly evolving but uniquely English spirituality remains at the heart of who we are.”

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