\u27A Thin and Tattered Veil\u27: Lewis Grassic Gibbon and the Church of Scotland

Discusses the changes in Scottish religious practice and adherence from just before the First World War, through to the early 1930s, through the representation of the Church of Scotland in Lewis Grassic Gibbon\u27s Scots Quair trilogy: Sunset Song (1932), Cloud Howe (1933), and Grey Granite (1934), with briefer comment on other writings by the same author writing as J. L. Mitchell. and a final comparison between Gibbon\u27s portrayal of religious change and that in an earlier Scottish novel, John Galt\u27s Annals of the Parish(1821)