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

Charting the growing religious pluralism of British society, this book investigates the diverse formations of masculinity within and across specific religions, regions and immigrant communities. Contributors look beyond conventional realms of worship to examine men's diverse religious cultures in a variety of contexts.

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