Part I. Providing the Means: 1. The environment and its constraints:
economic revolution, social transformation and spatial evolution; 2. The
many houses of God: churches, church-building and church extension in the
industrial town; 3. The burden shared: the changing political economy of
religious organisations; Part II. Drawing in the People: 4. The unfolding
of the associational ideal: auxiliary organisations and ambitious
societies; 5. Learning advanced: the Sunday School Movement, pedagogical
innovation and the theory of juvenile religious development; 6. Salvation
extended: conversion, revivals and the unending mission to the people; Part
III. The Trials of the Religious Life: 7. Worship exalted and experience
eclipsed: liturgical orderliness, dutiful observance and the making of a
modern Christian witness; 8. Christianity within and beyond the churches:
the pattern of devotion and the authenticity of expression; 9. The forward
march of the Christian churches halted? Organisational stasis and the
crisis of the associational ideal in early twentieth-century religious
institutions; Conclusion; Bibliography.
