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Faith in the town : lay religion in Northern England, 1740-1830 / Hannah Barker, Carys Brown, Kate Gibson, Jeremy Gregory.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barker, Hannah, 1967- author.
- Brown, Carys, 1991- author.
- Gibson, Kate, author.
- Gregory, Jeremy, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion and culture--England, Northern--History--18th century.
- Religion and culture.
- Religion and culture--England--History--19th century.
- City churches--England, Northern--History--18th century.
- City churches.
- City churches--England, Northern--History--19th century.
- England, Northern--Religion--18th century.
- England, Northern.
- England, Northern--Religion--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (459 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- 'Faith in the Town' explores the ways in which religious faith affected the lives of men, women, and children in the increasingly urban and industrialised context of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century northern England.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Faith in the Town Lay Religion in Northern England, 1740-1830
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Section One: Faith in an Urban Context
- 1: Religion and the Urban Landscape
- Images of the Town
- Religious Buildings and Memory
- Faith in the Streets
- Conclusion
- 2: The Urban Religious Marketplace
- Choice, Supply, and Demand
- Migration and Incomers
- Lay and Clerical Relations
- 3: Faith and Time
- Piety and Time Management
- Sabbath Day
- Holy Days and Festivals
- Section Two: Faith, Social Organization, and Economic Life
- 4: Faith and Social Hierarchies
- Social Status and Class
- Gender
- Family, Age, and Generation
- 5: Business and Faith
- Religion and Credit
- Providence and Business
- Business and Religious Intolerance
- 6: Religion and Work
- Labouring for God
- Piety at Work
- Impediments to Piety
- Section Three: Faith in the Home
- 7: Household Piety
- Didactic Texts on Domestic Piety
- The Lived Experience of Domestic Piety
- 8: The Material Culture of Domestic Religion
- Tracing the Ownership of Religious Domestic Objects Using Wills, Inventories, and Pawnbrokers' Accounts
- Bibles and Other Religious Books
- Samplers and Other Embroideries
- Ceramics and Pictures
- 9: Religious Sociability
- Sociability as Religious Practice
- Sociability and Holy Days
- Sabbath Sociability
- Religious Hospitality
- Bibliography
- ARCHIVAL SOURCES
- PUBLISHED PRIMARY SOURCES
- SECONDARY SOURCES
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 27, 2025).
- ISBN:
- 9780198935797
- 019893579X
- 9780198935773
- 0198935773
- OCLC:
- 1491239736
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