Publisher's Synopsis
In my recent book, "Sting and Religion: The Catholic-Shaped Imagination of a Rock Icon" (Cascade Books, 2021), I analyzed, among other things, the religious environment of a Catholic community in Wallsend, a small town near Newcastle Upon Tyne in North East England, from around 1950 to around 1970. Many of the historical events and geographical circumstances that led to the particular religious environment in that time and place were only superficially explored in that book, due to the need to keep the study at a reasonable length and focused on its main subject. In this present piece, I fill in some of those gaps. This short book can thus function as a background introduction to "Sting and Religion," or as an entirely independent historical survey of, as its title says, religion in England from prehistoric times to the early 1980s, with a special emphasis, when relevant, on Catholicism, and the country's North East.
