Editing British Israelism (section)

==Contemporary movement==
The BIWF continues to exist, with its main headquarters in [[Bishop Auckland]], [[County Durham]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Contact Us |website=The British-Israel-World Federation |url=http://www.britishisrael.co.uk/contact.php |access-date=24 August 2015}}</ref> It also has chapters in [[Australia]], [[Canada]], the [[Netherlands]], [[New Zealand]], and [[South Africa]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Other British-Israel Organisations |website=The British-Israel-World Federation |url=http://www.britishisrael.co.uk/otherbiwfs.php |access-date=24 August 2015}}</ref>

In 1968, one source estimated that there were between 3,000 and 5,000 British Israelists in Britain.<ref name=JWilson>{{cite journal |last1=Wilson |first1=J. |title=British Israelism: A Revitalization Movement in Contemporary Culture |journal=Archives de Sociologie des Religions |date=1 January 1968 |volume=13 |issue=26 |pages=73–80 |doi=10.3406/assr.1968.1808}}</ref> There, a few small [[Pentecostalism|Pentecostal]] churches have taught British Israelism.

The post-Imperial era brought about a change in orientation for British Israelists, reflected in a corresponding change in the social class to which their membership predominantly belonged. During the years of its initial growth, it could depend on the spread of [[Christian fundamentalism]] within the country, the emotional appeal of imperialism, and a belief in the unrivaled power of the British economy to expand a middle-class membership that viewed it as the divine duty of the nation, as God's chosen people, to rule and civilize the world. By the mid-20th century, the dissipation of these factors changed the focus of the movement to one troubled by social and moral decline, including the degradation of class distinctions and of monarchical absolutism. Societal changes were viewed as portents of a coming apocalypse and as indications that the nation was in need of redemption. A fantasized society which practiced Victorian moral rectitude and imperialism, lacked [[socialism]], bureaucrats, intellectuals, and [[income tax]], would now come to be viewed by the movement which drew its support from the well-to-do as the ideal that modern British society should emulate.<ref name=JWilson/>