Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700–2000 – serie
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Nineteenth-Century British Secularism
Science, Religion and Literature
Häftad, 2018
382 kr
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Nineteenth-Century British Secularism offers a new paradigm for understanding secularization in the nineteenth century. It addresses the crisis in the secularization thesis by foregrounding a nineteenth-century development called 'Secularism' – the particular movement and creed founded by George …
History of Catholic Intellectual Life in Scotland, 1918–1965
Inbunden, 2016
568 kr
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This book offers an innovative approach to the character of the intellectual life of Catholics in Scotland. It looks at Catholic attempts to fight the appeal of communism amongst the working classes in interwar Scotland, it analyses developments in the devotional life of Scottish Catholics and it …
Cold War Christians and the Spectre of Nuclear Deterrence, 1945-1959
Av J. Gorry
Inbunden, 2013
568 kr
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Offering a new interpretation of early Cold War history, this book demonstrates how Christian agency played a pivotal role in the creating of space for the logic of nuclear deterrence and nuclear war, showing a balanced examination of Christians as enablers but, more provocatively, as resisters of …
Irish Religious Conflict in Comparative Perspective
Catholics, Protestants and Muslims
Inbunden, 2014
551 kr
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By setting the Irish religious conflict in a wide comparative perspective, this book offers fresh insights into the causes of religious conflicts, and potential means of resolving them. The collection mounts a challenge to views of 'Irish exceptionalism' and points to significant historical and …
Suscribing to Faith? The Anglican Parish Magazine 1859-1929
Av Jane Platt
Inbunden, 2015
551 kr
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This book reveals the huge sales and propagandist potential of Anglican parish magazines, while demonstrating the Anglican Church's misunderstanding of the real issues at its heart, and its collective collapse of confidence as it contemplated social change.
Church and Patronage in 20th Century Britain
Walter Hussey and the Arts
Inbunden, 2017
1095 kr
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This book is the first full-length treatment of Walter Hussey's work as a patron between 1943 and 1978, first for the Anglican parish church of St Matthew in Northampton, and then at Chichester Cathedral. He was responsible for the most significant sequence of works of art commissioned for the …
Jehovah's Witnesses and the Secular World
From the 1870s to the Present
Av Zoe Knox
Inbunden, 2018
1204 kr
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This book examines the historic tensions between Jehovah’s Witnesses and government authorities, civic organisations, established churches and the broader public. Witnesses originated in the 1870s as small, loose-knit groups calling themselves Bible Students. Today, there are some eight million …
Morality and Citizenship in English Schools
Secular Approaches, 1897–1944
Inbunden, 2016
848 kr
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This book sheds new light on early twentieth-century secularism by examining campaigns to challenge dominant Christian approaches to the teaching of morality and citizenship in English schools, and to offer superior alternatives. It brings together, for the first time, the activities of different …
Faith and Fascism
Catholic Intellectuals in Italy, 1925–43
Inbunden, 2017
932 kr
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This is a study of the Federazione Universitaria Cattolica Italiana (FUCI) between 1925 and 1943, the organisation of Catholic Action for the university sector. The FUCI is highly significant to the study of Catholic politics and intellectual ideas, as a large proportion of the future Christian …
Nineteenth-Century British Secularism
Science, Religion and Literature
Inbunden, 2016
878 kr
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Nineteenth-Century British Secularism offers a new paradigm for understanding secularization in the nineteenth century. It addresses the crisis in the secularization thesis by foregrounding a nineteenth-century development called 'Secularism' – the particular movement and creed founded by George …
Great Powers and Orthodox Christendom
The Crisis over the Eastern Church in the Era of the Crimean War
Av Jack Fairey
Inbunden, 2015
1095 kr
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This new political history of the Orthodox Church in the Ottoman Empire explains why Orthodoxy became the subject of acute political competition between the Great Powers during the mid 19th century. It also explores how such rivalries led, paradoxically, both to secularizing reforms and to Europe's …
Britain’s Last Religious Revival?
Quantifying Belonging, Behaving, and Believing in the Long 1950s
Av C. Field
Inbunden, 2015
660 kr
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This is a major contribution to scholarly debates on the chronology and nature of secularization in modern Britain. Combining historical and social scientific insights, it analyses a range of statistical evidence for the 'long 1950s', testing (and largely rejecting) Callum Brown's claims that there …
Cold War Christians and the Spectre of Nuclear Deterrence, 1945-1959
Av J. Gorry
Häftad, 2013
551 kr
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Offering a new interpretation of early Cold War history, this book demonstrates how Christian agency played a pivotal role in the creating of space for the logic of nuclear deterrence and nuclear war, showing a balanced examination of Christians as enablers but, more provocatively, as resisters of …
Irish Religious Conflict in Comparative Perspective
Catholics, Protestants and Muslims
Av John Wolffe
Häftad, 2014
551 kr
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By setting the Irish religious conflict in a wide comparative perspective, this book offers fresh insights into the causes of religious conflicts, and potential means of resolving them. The collection mounts a challenge to views of 'Irish exceptionalism' and points to significant historical and …
History of Catholic Intellectual Life in Scotland, 1918–1965
Häftad, 2018
568 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book offers an innovative approach to the character of the intellectual life of Catholics in Scotland. It looks at Catholic attempts to fight the appeal of communism amongst the working classes in interwar Scotland, it analyses developments in the devotional life of Scottish Catholics and it …
Church and Patronage in 20th Century Britain
Walter Hussey and the Arts
Häftad, 2019
312 kr
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This book is the first full-length treatment of Walter Hussey's work as a patron between 1943 and 1978, first for the Anglican parish church of St Matthew in Northampton, and then at Chichester Cathedral. He was responsible for the most significant sequence of works of art commissioned for the …
Jehovah's Witnesses and the Secular World
From the 1870s to the Present
Av Zoe Knox
Häftad, 2020
442 kr
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This book examines the historic tensions between Jehovah’s Witnesses and government authorities, civic organisations, established churches and the broader public. Witnesses originated in the 1870s as small, loose-knit groups calling themselves Bible Students. Today, there are some eight million …
Morality and Citizenship in English Schools
Secular Approaches, 1897–1944
Häftad, 2018
568 kr
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This book sheds new light on early twentieth-century secularism by examining campaigns to challenge dominant Christian approaches to the teaching of morality and citizenship in English schools, and to offer superior alternatives. It brings together, for the first time, the activities of different …
Divided Loyalties? Pushing the Boundaries of Gender and Lay Roles in the Catholic Church, 1534-1829
Av Lisa McClain
Häftad, 2018
279 kr
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This book explores changing gender and religious roles for Catholic men and women in the British Isles from Henry VIII’s break with the Catholic Church in 1534 to full emancipation in 1829. Filled with richly detailed stories, such as the suppression of Mary Ward’s Institute of English Ladies, it …
Anti-Catholicism in Britain and Ireland, 1600–2000
Practices, Representations and Ideas
Av Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille, Geraldine Vaughan
Inbunden, 2020
1534 kr
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This edited collection brings together varying angles and approaches to tackle the multi-dimensional issue of anti-Catholicism since the Protestant Reformation in Britain and Ireland. It is of course difficult to infer from such geographically and historically diverse studies one single contention, …
Anti-Catholicism in Britain and Ireland, 1600–2000
Practices, Representations and Ideas
Av Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille, Geraldine Vaughan
Häftad, 2021
1534 kr
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This edited collection brings together varying angles and approaches to tackle the multi-dimensional issue of anti-Catholicism since the Protestant Reformation in Britain and Ireland. It is of course difficult to infer from such geographically and historically diverse studies one single contention, …
Local Churches in New Urban Britain, 1890-1975
“The Greatest Challenge”?
Av Grant Masom
Inbunden, 2020
552 kr
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“This monograph is an important contribution to our understanding of the varied fortunes of British Christianity during the twentieth century.”- Rev Dr Andrew Atherstone, Tutor in Church History and Latimer Research Fellow, Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford, UK“This book is an important and …
Local Churches in New Urban Britain, 1890-1975
“The Greatest Challenge”?
Av Grant Masom
Häftad, 2021
552 kr
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“This monograph is an important contribution to our understanding of the varied fortunes of British Christianity during the twentieth century.”- Rev Dr Andrew Atherstone, Tutor in Church History and Latimer Research Fellow, Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford, UK“This book is an important and …
Visions of British Culture from the Reformation to Romanticism
The Protestant Discovery of Tradition
Inbunden, 2022
1425 kr
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This book is a major new contribution to the study of cultural identities in Britain and Ireland from the Reformation to Romanticism. It provides a fresh perspective on the rise of interest in British vernacular (or “folk”) cultures, which has often been elided with the emergence of British …
Visions of British Culture from the Reformation to Romanticism
The Protestant Discovery of Tradition
Häftad, 2023
1425 kr
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This book is a major new contribution to the study of cultural identities in Britain and Ireland from the Reformation to Romanticism. It provides a fresh perspective on the rise of interest in British vernacular (or “folk”) cultures, which has often been elided with the emergence of British …
Empire and Progress in the Victorian Secularist Movement
Imagining a Secular World
Inbunden, 2021
1316 kr
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This book is the first extensive historical analysis of the relationship between empire and the Victorian secularist movement. Historians have paid little attention to the role of empire in the development of organized free thought. Secularism as it developed in Britain and its settler colonies was …
Empire and Progress in the Victorian Secularist Movement
Imagining a Secular World
Häftad, 2022
1316 kr
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This book is the first extensive historical analysis of the relationship between empire and the Victorian secularist movement. Historians have paid little attention to the role of empire in the development of organized free thought. Secularism as it developed in Britain and its settler colonies was …
Rethinking Secular Time in Victorian England
Inbunden, 2022
552 kr
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This open access book draws on conceptual resources ranging from medieval scholasticism to postmodern theory to propose a new understanding of secular time and its mediation in nineteenth-century technological networks. Untethering the concept of secularity from questions of ‘religion’ and …
Rethinking Secular Time in Victorian England
Häftad, 2022
443 kr
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This open access book draws on conceptual resources ranging from medieval scholasticism to postmodern theory to propose a new understanding of secular time and its mediation in nineteenth-century technological networks. Untethering the concept of secularity from questions of ‘religion’ and …
Anti-Catholicism and British Identities in Britain, Canada and Australia, 1880s-1920s
Inbunden, 2022
1098 kr
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Recent debates about the definition of national identities in Britain, along with discussions on the secularisation of Western societies, have brought to light the importance of a historical approach to the notion of Britishness and religion. This book explores anti-Catholicism in Britain and its …
