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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456197803321

Autore

Snell K. D. M.

Titolo

Rival Jerusalems : the geography of Victorian religion / / K.D.M. Snell and Paul S. Ell [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2000

ISBN

1-107-11933-2

0-521-12122-1

0-511-15077-6

1-280-15902-2

0-511-49606-0

0-511-11836-8

0-511-30313-0

0-511-04955-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 499 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

274.2/081

Soggetti

Christian sociology - England - History - 19th century

Christian sociology - Wales - History - 19th century

England Church history 19th century

Wales Church history 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 453-482) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The 1851 Census of Religious Worship; 2 The Church of England; 3 Old dissent: the Presbyterians, Independents, Baptists, Quakers and Unitarians; 4 The geographies of new dissent; 5 Roman Catholicism and Irish immigration; 6 Denominational co-existence, reciprocity or exclusion?; 7 A prospect of fifteen counties; 8 From Henry Compton to Horace Mann: stability or relocation in Catholicism and Nonconformity; 9 The Sunday school movement: child labour, denominational control and working-class culture

10 Free or appropriated sittings: the Anglican Church in perspective 11 Conformity, dissent and the influence of landownership; 12



Urbanisation and regional secularisation; Technical appendices; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This pioneering book is based upon very extensive analysis of the famous 1851 Census of Religious Worship and earlier sources such as the 1676 Compton Census. The authors stress contextual and regional understanding of religion. Among the subjects covered for all of England and Wales are the geography of the Church of England, Roman Catholicism, the old and new dissenting denominations, the spatial complementarity of denominations, and their importance for political history. A range of further questions are then analysed, such as regional continuities in religion, the growth of religious pluralism, Sunday schools and child labour during industrialisation, free and appropriated church sittings, landownership and religion, and urbanisation and regional 'secularisation'. This book's advanced methods and findings will have far-reaching influence within the disciplines of history, historical and cultural geography, religious sociology and in the social science community general.