Regular attendance in church has halved since the beginning of the Eighties. Sundays used to be structured around morning service; now they are filled with trips to IKEA or watching football on Sky. What happened to the old England? Does it matter?'Yes!' asserts Cole Moreton in this witty and thought-provoking tour through the shifting aisles of our belief. For centuries, our myths and legends, our collective assumptions, our values, our government and our law were all formed and influenced by our own understanding of Christianity, bound up in tradition, class and power. Without it this England is a different country, with all the old certainties gone. In Is God Still an Englishman? Moreton, a former fundamentalist himself, blends memoir with cultural narrative in search of the means by which we fell out with God - yet, crucially, came to believe in other ways, from spiritualism to the pagan religions and Buddhism. He points to how our relationship with religion is at the centre of who we are, and to where our future lies.