Religion, identity and conflict in Britain
Subtitle: from the Restoration to the twentieth century: essays in honour of Keith Robbins
By: edited by Stewart J. Brown, University of Edinburgh, UK, Frances Knight, University of Nottingham, UK and John Morgan-Guy, University of Wales, Trinity St David, UK
Contributors: Robbins, Keith, honouree
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Burlington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9781409451488; 9781409451495; 9781409472223
Subjects: Christentum; Church and state; Christianity and politics; Religion; Church history; Politik; Nationalbewusstsein; History
Description: This volume builds upon and develops the growing conception of the vital role of religion and religious discourse in the course of British history since the revolution of 1688-89. It brings together a distinguished team of authors who explore the interactions of religion, politics and culture that shaped and defined modern Britain.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-271) and index.
Table of contents: title: Defining Britain and Britishness: An Historian's Quest. An Appreciation of Keith Robbins / Bruce Collins; title: The Manner of English Blasphemy, 1676-2008 / John Spurr; title: The Topography of Power: Elites and the Political Landscape of the English Town 1660-1760 / Peter Borsay; title: 'Sleep not while the trumpet is blown in Zion': Public Somnolence, Civic Values and Modern Audience in Eighteenth-century Britain / Joris van Eijnatten; title: A Tale of Two Mirrors: Forming an Identity for the Calvanistic Methodist Church of Wales / Eryn M. White; title: Sunday Schools and Welsh National Identity: An Historiographical Study / Paula Yates; title: Evangelicalism and British Culture / D.W. Bebbington; title: Anglican Attitudes to Roman Catholicism in the Late Eighteenth and Early Ninteenth Centuries / Nigel Yates; title: Trials and Shadows: Bishop Charles John Ellicott (1819-1905) and 'angry controversies' in the Church of England / John Morgan-Guy; title: Recreation or Renunciation? Episcopal Interventions in the Drink Question in the 1890s / Frances Knight; title: Recreations to the Didache in Early Twentieth-century Britain: A Dispute over the Relationship of History and Doctrine? / Thomas O'Loughlin; title: Religion, Politics and Sport in Western Europe, c.1870-1939 / Hugh McLeod; title: W.T. Stead, the 'New Journalism' and the 'New Church' in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain / Stewart J. Brown; title: 'An Ambitious Venture': Oxford University Press and The Oxford History of England / Brian Harrison.