Men, Masculinities and Religious Change in Twentieth-Century Britain

Sean Brady Birkbeck College, University of London, UK Callum G. Brown, University of Glasgow, UK Amanullah De Sondy, University of Miami, USA Alison Falby, Anglican Diocese of Toronto, Canada Alana Harris, University of Oxford, UK Stephen Hunt, University of the West of England, UK Timothy W. Jones, University of Glamorgan, UK and La Trobe University, Australia Sumita Mukherjee, University of Glasgow, UK Susan L. Tananbaum, Bowdoin College, USA

"Masculinity and religious change in the twentieth-century United Kingdom is the topic of this collection of essays, edited by the historians Lucy Delap and Sue Morgan and presenting the results of a conference held in 2012. ... the book is very readable and gives an interesting insight into the cultural, political and social developments in an increasingly multicultural British society." (Yvonne Maria Werner, Theology and Sexuality, Vol. 21 (1), 2015) "An engaging and thought-provoking account of the dynamic relationships between a range of faith - and no faith - traditions and diverse and internally complex articulations of masculinity. Focusing on 'religion' broadly conceived - from belief to institutional affiliation and beyond - and employing a variety of approaches and methodologies, this is crucial reading for anyone interested in the history of masculinity or of religion and secularization in modern Britain." - Professor Joy Dixon, University of British Columbia, Canada 'This is a ground-breaking collection. Masculinity and religiosity provide fascinating vantage points from which to view the assumptions and established narratives and chronologies of recent British history. The authors throw new questions into the mix. If spirituality was increasingly upheld by women and religious identities became feminised in the twentieth century, how should we understand men's investments in religion? How does attention to spirituality change our ideas about masculinity, the supposed shift from the heroic manliness of the Edwardian adventurer, to the mid-century domesticity of the 'little man' and more psychological ideas of the self? Men, Masculinities and Religious Change shows the century in a different light, demonstrating the persistence of traditional modes of piety and ideals of manly conduct while revealing the variety of religious affiliations and identities, in the process revealing the complex shapes of modernity in Britain.' - Professor Michael Roper, University of Essex, UK

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Men, Masculinities and Religious Change in Post-Christian Britain; Lucy Delap and Sue Morgan 1. Buddhist Psychologies and Masculinity in Early Twentieth-Century Britain; Alison Falby 2. 'The People of God dressed for dinner and dancing'? English Catholic Masculinity, Religious Sociability and the Catenian Association; Alana Harris 3. 'To their credit as Jews and Englishmen': Services for Youth and the Shaping of Jewish Masculinity in Britain, 1890s-1930s; Susan L. Tananbaum 4. 'Be Strong and Play the Man': Anglican Masculinities in the Twentieth Century; Lucy Delap 5. The Emergence of a British Hindu Identity between 1936 and 1937; Sumita Mukherjee 6. 'Iron strength and infinite tenderness': Herbert Gray and the Making of Christian Masculinities at War and at Home, 1900-1940'; Sue Morgan 7. Moral Welfare and Social Wellbeing: The Church of England and the Emergence of Modern Homosexuality; Timothy W. Jones 8. Why examine men, masculinities and religion in Northern Ireland?; Sean Brady 9. British Pakistani Masculinities: Longing and Belonging; Amaah De Sondy 10. 'Laboratories'of Gender? Masculinities, Spirituality and New Religious Movements in Late Twentieth-century Britain; Stephen Hunt 11. Men losing faith: the Making of Modern no-religionism in the UK, 1939-2010; Callum G. Brown Select Bibliography Index