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August 28, 2004
Sunday life in Britain
Sociologist Michael Willmott acknowledges there has been a "dramatic change in the way we spend our Sundays".
"For many people who didn't go to church, Sundays used to be felt as an oppressive day, when they were forbidden from living the life they had for the rest of the week," says Mr Willmott, a founder of the Future Foundation consultancy.
"The constraints have gone now and people see it more as a sort of mini-Saturday."
But not everyone embraces these new, consumer-led Sundays. After all, shoppers demand shop assistants, diners demand waiting staff.
Although the Church of England says Sunday attendances are holding relatively steady at about a million, many Christians feel society is poorer for losing this enforced day of relaxation and contemplation.
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Remember what Sundays used to be like?
Posted by thdyck on August 28, 2004
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