Problem
What factors lay behind the crisis of traditional, organized Christianity in the long Sixties? Answer with reference to the secondary source below,
Back in Britain, Chatterley in 1960 heralded the wider challenge to "the establishment" - the integrated network of state, judiciary, church, landed classes and others that was seen as stifling liberty and change. It was this establishment that was earmarked by radicals as in need of overturning as part-and-parcel of the challenge to organized Christianity. It was the identification of "being religious" as part of establishment belonging that gave the religious crisis its sense of external threat. Religion was being targeted by various forces because it was seen as part of the establishment. Behind it lay an even more powerful and widespread social phenomenon - the religious apathy of the young who were the customers for the anti-religious jibing of the comedy and popular music of the decade in satire shows including That Was the Week That Was and Monty Python's Flying Circus, and rock albums like Jethro Tull's Aqualung. But the lampooning of organized Christianity signalled less a growth of organized anti-religious secularism as a rejection of church and parental controls.