Conclusions and future work

The final chapter—chapter 12—reviews the main findings of the book and its implications. It also makes some proposals for future scholarly work on adherence. The chapter addresses the three principal audiences of the book—social movement theorists, political theorists, and historians, especially of Britain—indicating the possibilities for future work and interdisciplinary conversations between them. It also considers the ambivalence of contemporary responses to adherence and argues that exploring this ambivalence in greater depth is a good direction for future work.