Author: Kenneth InglisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134528876
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Churches and the Working Classes in Victorian England
Author: Kenneth InglisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134528876
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Churches and the Working Classes in Victorian England
Author: Kenneth Stanley InglisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church and social problems
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Churches and the Working Classes
Author: Patricia MidgleyPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443844586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Contrary to our perception of the centrality of the churches in English life in the nineteenth century, the disappointing results of the 1851 Religious Census led religious leaders to seek a variety of ways to increase religious allegiance as the century progressed. The apparent apathy and lack of interest in formal religion on the part of the working classes was particularly galling, and the various denominations tried hard to attract them through evangelical missions as well as social and charitable ventures which sometimes competed with religious concerns, to the latter’s detriment. This book traces the motivations, concerns and efforts of the churches, particularly in the period between 1870 and 1920, and the ambivalent responses of ordinary people. The Education Act of 1870 led to the churches losing their hold on the education of the young, a consequence foreseen by many church leaders, but unable to be prevented. By 1920 it was apparent that the churches’ optimism regarding an increased role with a war-weary population would not be fulfilled. The focus is on the city of Leeds, representative of the industrialised urban areas with burgeoning populations which proved to be such a challenge to the churches, at the same time stimulating them to ever-greater efforts.
Churches and the Working Classes in Victorian England
Author: Kenneth InglisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134528949
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
First published in 2006. A listener to sermons, and even a reader of respectable history books, could easily think that during the nineteenth century the habit of attending religious worship was normal among the English working classes.
Churches and the Working Classes in Victorian England
Author: K. S. InglisReligion and the Working Class in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: Hugh McleodPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1349052132
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
"It might have been little more than an annotated bibliography. It is in fact an important independent study in its own right." The Expository Times
Christianity and the Working Classes
Author: George HawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Churches and the Working Classes
Author: Patricia MidgleyThe Church and the Slums
Author: Alastair WilcoxPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443859974
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
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 and Nonconformists from Wales and Scotland, appeared to offer unpromising ground for the Anglican Church to sow its seed. Within the city, Liverpool’s notorious slums seemed to offer the most barren ground of all. What strategies did the Anglican clergy employ to make their churches work at a grassroots level? How could they overcome the problems they faced, which ranged from the hostility of the local community to severe financial constraints? How helpful was the advice dispensed by Church handbooks in dealing with these challenges? More important, is it now possible to estimate the success in gaining not only worshippers, but a wider penumbra of working class adherents to church-based activities? Some of Liverpool’s more aristocratic churches were overwhelmed by the encroaching city slums, and the reaction of at least one clergyman was to retreat within his vicarage, and ‘shut up shop’. However, other clergy set about energetically working the slums. Largely Oxbridge men, with a very different background in social and educational terms to their flock, they made surprising progress. By drawing upon a variety of local sources, including many hitherto unused, this book contends that it is possible to evaluate the success of the Anglican Church in the slums. The Church had successes not only to be judged solely by the number of working class worshippers, but also by the uses the local community made of rites of passage, philanthropic activities and the clubs and societies offered by the Anglican Church in Liverpool. This book is aimed at readers interested in researching family and local history as well as those following wider national trends in religious history.
Churches and Social Order in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Canada
Author: Michael GauvreauPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773576002
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
By examinng education, charity, community discipline, the relationship between clergy and congregations, and working-class religion, the contributors shift the field of religious history into the realm of the socio-cultural. This novel perspective reveals that the Christian churches remained dynamic and popular in English and French Canada, as well as among immigrants, well into the twentieth century.