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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461192403321

Autore

Sidenvall Erik

Titolo

After anti-Catholicism? [[electronic resource] ] : John Henry Newman and Protestant Britain, 1845-c. 1890 / / Erik Sidenvall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : T & T Clark International, c2005

ISBN

1-283-20047-3

9786613200471

0-567-53984-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Disciplina

305.6/82/09034

Soggetti

Anti-Catholicism - England - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

England Church history 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Note on Terminology; Introduction; 1 Newman's Secession and Anti-Catholic Britain; 2 Meaning and Metaphor; 3 Breaking the Anti-Catholic Ascendancy; 4 Tensions of Anglo-Catholicism; 5 Final Contradictions; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Is it possible to capture, in brief, the fundamental changes that affected the role of religion within modern Western society? For a long time, many scholars would have answered that question in the positive; most of them would certainly have counted increasingly tolerant attitudes towards forms of religion that were once been regarded as unacceptable, as being one of those central features. In the light of the current revision of the established 'truths' concerning modern religion, it is now possible to once again address the wide-spread belief that modernity meant the gradual victory of more