A History of Religion in Britain
Practice and Belief from Pre-Roman Times to the Present
Blackwell Publishers
Published on 23. July 1994
Book
Hardback
560 pages
978-0-631-15281-1 (ISBN)
Description
Written by 23 leading scholars, this one-volume history of religious belief and practice in England, Wales and Scotland covers the period from pre-Roman times to the present. Its focus is on the worship and the beliefs of the British peoples, the questions which exercised them, and the degree to which belief and practice were changed by institutional reforms and upheavals in church or state. Christianity occupies the greater part of the book, but considerable space is devoted to pre-Christian and non-Christian beliefs, in particular Judaism and Islam.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
chronology, further reading, index
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 171 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-631-15281-1 (9780631152811)
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A History of Religion in Britain
Practice and Belief from Pre-Roman Times to the Present
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Content
Part I: Conversion and Christianity 1. Religion in Roman Britain, Martin Henig (University of Oxford); 2. Religion in Anglo-Saxon England, Gerald Bonner (University of Durham); 3. From the Conquest to the Black Death, Rosalind Hill (University of London); 4. Piety in the Later Middle Ages, Norman Tanner (University of Oxford); 5. Medieval Wales and the Reformation, Glanmor Williams (University of Swansea); 6. Religious Life in Medieval Scotland, Michael Lynch (University of Edinburgh) Part II: Reform, Revival and Enlightenment 7. The Church in Scotland from the Reformation to Disruption, James K. Cameron 8. Reformed Religion in England, W.J. Sheils (University of York) 9. Anglicanism in Stuart and Hanoverian England, Ian Green (University of Belfast) 10. Radical Sects and Dissenting Churches, 1600-1750, Michael Mullet (University of Lancaster) 11. Rational Religion in England from Herbert of Cherbury to William Paley, David Pailin (University of Manchester) 12. Catholicism in England from the Reformation to the Relief Acts, W.J. Sheils (University of York) 13. Evangelical Revival in 18th-Century Britain, W.R. Ward (University of Durham) Part III: Industrialization, Empire and Identity 14. Church and State since 1800, Edward Norman (Christchurch College, Canterbury) 15. The Church of England in the 19th Century, Sheridan Gilley (University of Durham) 16. Religious Life in Industrial Britain, 1830-1914, David Hempton (University of Belfast) 17. Hebrews Hellenized?: English Evangelical Nonconformity and Culture, 1840-1940, Clyde Binfield (University of Sheffield) 18. The Roman Catholic Church in England, 1780-1940, Sheridan Gilley, (University of Durham) 19. Religion and Community in Scotland and Wales since 1800, Keith Robbins (University of Lancaster) 20. British Religion and the Wider World, Mission and Empire, Peter C. Williams (University of Bristol) 21. Secularists and Nationalists, Edward Royle (University of York) Part IV The 20th Century 22. The Jewish Community in Britain, Jonathan Campbell, University of Lampeter) 23. Religious Life Between the Wars, Stuart Mews (University of Lancaster) 24. The Christian Churches in England since the War: Ecumenism and Social Concern, Alan Suggate (University of Durham) 25. Religious Pluralism in Modern Britain, Paul Badham (University of Lampeter) 26. Secularization and the Future, Alan Gilbert (University of Sydney).