The Empty Church Revisited

This is a substantial revision of The Myth of the Empty Church (SPCK, London, 1993) incorporating many theoretical and empirical changes reflecting recent scholarship. It revisits all of the original case-studies (North Northumberland in chapter1, Glan-llyn in chapter 2, and York in chapter 9), makes radical changes to chapters 8 and 10, updates Tables 18 and 19, and adds Table 20. David Martin writes on the cover: ‘This is a necessary text and classic intervention in debates over secularisation, forcing us to revise many assumptions, as well as showing the importance of the economics of over-provision’.