Frances Knight

Religion, Identity and Conflict in Britain

From the Restoration to the Twentieth Century: Essays in Honour of Keith Robbins
Herausgeber: Brown, Stewart J.

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Produktbeschreibung

The British state between the mid-seventeenth century to the early twentieth century was essentially a Christian state. Christianity permeated society, defining the rites of passage - baptism, first communion, marriage and burial - that shaped individual lives, providing a sense of continuity between past, present and future generations, and informing social institutions and voluntary associations. Yet this religious conception of state and society was also the source of conflict. The Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 brought limited toleration for Protestant Dissenters, who felt unable to worship in the established Church, and there were challenges to faith raised by biblical and historical scholarship, science, moral questioning and social dislocations and unrest. This book brings together a distinguished team of authors who explore the interactions of religion, politics and culture that shaped and defined modern Britain. They consider expressions of civic consciousness in the expanding towns and cities, the growth of Welsh national identity, movements for popular education and temperance reform, and the influence of organised sport, popular journalism, and historical writing in defining national life. Most importantly, the contributors highlight the vital role of religious faith and religious institutions in the understanding of the modern British state.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 611g
• ISBN-13: 9781409451488
• ISBN-10: 1409451488
• Artikelnr.: 41241566

Autorenporträt

Stewart J. Brown is Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Head of the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Frances Knight is Associate Professor in the History of Modern Christianity at the University of Nottingham. John Morgan-Guy was formerly Lecturer in Church History at the University of Wales, Trinity St David.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction; Part I Religion and Identity: Defining Britain and
Britishness; an historian's quest. An appreciation of Keith Robbins, Bruce
Collins; The manner of English blasphemy, 1676-2008, John Spurr; The
topography of power: elites and the political landscape of the English
town, 1660-1760, Peter Borsay; 'Sleep not while the trumpet is blown in
Zion': public somnolence, civic values and modern audience in 18th-century
Britain, Joris van Eijnatten; A tale of two mirrors: forming an identity
for the Calvinistic Methodist Church of Wales, Eryn M. White; Sunday
schools and Welsh national identity: an historiographical study, Paula
Yates; Evangelicalism and British culture, D.W. Bebbington; Anglican
attitudes to Roman Catholicism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries,
Nigel Yates. Part II Conflict and Identity: Trials and shadows: Bishop
Charles John Ellicott (1819-1905) and 'angry controversies' in the Church
of England, John Morgan-Guy; Recreation or renunciation? Episcopal
interventions in the Drink Question in the 1890s, Frances Knight; Reactions
to the Didache in early 20th-century Britain: a dispute over the
relationship of history and doctrine?, Thomas O'Loughlin; Religion,
politics and sport in Western Europe, c.1870-1939, Hugh McLeod; W.T. Stead,
the 'new journalism' and the 'new Church' in late Victorian and Edwardian
Britain, Stewart J. Brown; 'An ambitious venture': Oxford University Press
and The Oxford History of England, Brian Harrison; Select bibliography of
the publications of Keith Robbins; Index.