1. For a discussion of the term ‘secularisation’ and its implications for organised religion see A. D. Gilbert, The Making of Post-Christian Britain. A History of the Secularisation of Modern Society (London: Longman, 1980).
2. On the relationship between Marxism and religion see J. M. Bochenski, ‘Marxism-Leninism and Religion’, in Bohdan Bociurkiw and John Strong (eds) Religion and Atheism in the USSR and Eastern Europe (London: Macmillan, 1975); and
3. Trevor Beeson, Discretion and Valour (London: Fount Paperbacks, 1982, revised edn) pp. 15–22.
4. Peter Prifti, ‘Albania — Towards an Athiest Society’, in Bociurkiw and Strong, p. 400; see also Bernhard Tonnes, ‘Religious Persecution in Albania’, Religion in Communist Lands, vol. 10, no. 4, September 1982, pp. 242–55.
5. See J. L. Adams, The Growing Church Lobby in Washington (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Ferdmans, 1970).