num_pages: 300
description: This book looks at popular religion in early modern England, using detailed accounts of local conflicts to bring the religion of ordinary people to life. Unlike other studies, it examines not magical beliefs but orthodox religion. It counters the view that popular and elite culture in Europe and Britain became polarized by showing how the gentry and people cooperated in regulating religion. But while the clergy did not deserve their poor reputation, their defensiveness also prevented them from fulfilling popular religious needs.
language: English
title: The Church in an Age of Danger: Parsons and Parishioners, 1660–1740
titlecomplete: The Church in an Age of Danger: Parsons and Parishioners, 1660–1740 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History)
ratings_count: 1
series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
publisher: Cambridge University Press