Abstract
Abstract This chapter addresses the secularization thesis by considering the transformations which can be discerned in English Catholicism over the past three or four decades.1 First, it will examine a wide range of empirical evidence relating to contemporary English Catholicism which indicates a move out of a defensive, ‘fortress’ model of the Church, whose walls have steadily been dissolved, and a shift from what Hammond has called a ‘collective-expressive’ to an ‘individual-expres¬ sive’ view of the Church.2 Secondly, it will report evidence for ‘customary’ religion and transformations of religious authority.
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