Stewart Headlam's radical Anglicanism : the Mass, the masses, and the music hall / John Richard Orens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orens, John.

Series:

Studies in Angelican History

Studies in Anglican history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anglicans--England--Biography--Early works to 1800.

Anglicans.

Headlam, Stewart D. (Stewart Duckworth), 1847-1924.

Headlam, Stewart D.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Standing in stark contrast to the conservative churchmen of Victorian Britain, the Anglican clergyman Stewart Headlam was a passionately progressive reformer, a champion of the working poor--especially women --a defender of the music hall performers his colleagues attacked as licentious, and, in short, a man of God who remained firmly and controversially engaged with the society in which he lived and worked.This book, the first significant study of Headlam since 1928, paints a rich and complex picture of this larger-than-life man of the cloth, charting the trail he blazed across the social, political, and religious landscape of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain.Dissatisfied from an early age with his family's Evangelical faith, Headlam became an Anglican curate, but his political views were increasingly radicalized as he befriended working-class atheists and trade union leaders. John Richard Orens details Headlam's repeated conflicts with the establishment figures of his faith over his defense of music hall ballet performers' right to reveal their legs, his role in the early years of the Fabian Society, his anti-puritanism, and his passionate socialism. Headlam was even instrumental in having Oscar Wilde bailed out of prison following the writer's arrest for "homosexual offenses."With this intellectual biography, Orens places Headlam's life, beliefs, and actions in the context of the period, contributing to the ongoing debate about the proper relationship between Christianity, on the one hand, and society, sexuality, and the arts, on the other.

Contents:

Anglican difficulties

The curate's progress

The bishop and Mr. Bradlaugh

Building Jerusalem

Christ at the Alhambra

The banner of Christ in the hands of the socialists

Headlong and shuttlecock

Triumph, tumult, and scandal

Prigs and bureaucrats

The age to come.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-178) and index.

ISBN:

9780252092046

025209204X

OCLC:

1059102851