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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Snell, K. D. M., author.

Ell, Paul S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian sociology--England--History--19th century.

Christian sociology.

Christian sociology--Wales--History--19th century.

England--Church history--19th century.

England.

Wales--Church history--19th century.

Wales.

Physical Description:

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

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

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

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

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

OCLC:

437072990