Albion M. Urdank

Birth, Death, and Religious Faith in an English Dissenting Community

A Microhistory of Nailsworth and Hinterland, 1695-1837

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This microanalysis of population levels among Protestant dissenters in England during an era of evangelical revival uses advanced statistical methodologies to examine the demographic effects of religious conversion experiences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9781498523523
• ISBN-10: 1498523528
• Artikelnr.: 43750262

Autorenporträt

Albion M. Urdank is associate professor of modern British and European history at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Religious enthusiasm and reproduction: a
probabilistic connection Chapter 3: Implicit narratives: textuality and
emotion in demographic behavior Chapter 4: Baptist fertility Chapter 5:
Anglican fertility Chapter 6: Mortality Conclusion Appendix 1: Fecund
fertility rates by timing of female Baptist conversion Appendix 2: Spacing
of Selected Birth Intervals (Baptist) Appendix 3: Fecund fertility rates by
Anglican and Baptist female conversion: Fecundity length Appendix 4: Fecund
fertility rates from combined Anglican and Baptist by female conversion
Appendix 5: Spacing of Selected birth intervals (Anglican) Appendix 6:
Infant and child morality and burial rates Appendix 7: Age-specific adult
burial rates 1695-1837: overall and by gender, tables A and B Appendix 8:
Age-specific adult burial 1695-1768 and 1769-1837: life-table analyses