ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on recuperation somewhat akin to what the author devise for Grace Davie's celebration volume. Sociology was a discipline rooted in philosophy as well as a discipline rooted in rhetoric. Once cottoned on to the importance of religion for American sociologists the author realised that indifference to it in British sociology, and specifically indifference to the sociology of British religion, was a provincial quirk of a particular national and disciplinary history. The main sources for information about religion in Britain was to be found in community studies, for example, information on the dying practice of the 'churching of women' after childbirth in work on Bethnal Green, Family and Kinship in East London. The development of Conservative Evangelical Christianity in the sixties presaged a partial shift from the general acceptance of Christianity at the beginning of the sixties to the role of a subculture.
