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The church and the slums : the Victorian Anglican church and its mission to Liverpool's poor / by Alastair Wilcox.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilcox, Alastair, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church of England--History.
- Church work with the poor--England--Liverpool.
- Missions--England--Liverpool--History.
- Poor--England--Liverpool.
- City missions--England--Liverpool.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (259 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Organised religion played such a central part in Victorian life that it is impossible to understand this era without some reference to it. Yet the question, which worried the Victorians, still remains, how religious was the mass of Victorian society? Recent scholarship has challenged the orthodoxy that the working classes, and the working classes of large urban centres in particular, were irreligious. Yet Liverpool, with its large migratory population, including Roman Catholics from Ireland a...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; APPENDIX ONE; APPENDIX TWO; APPENDIX THREE; APPENDIX FOUR; INDEX
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 17, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-5997-4
- OCLC:
- 879551169
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