Title: Religious routes to Gladstonian liberalism
Description: This book, covering the period 1832 to 1868, describes how the so-called "church rates" controversy contributed to the rise of a secular liberal state in England and Wales. The church rate was an ancient tax required of all ratepayers, regardless of denomination, for the upkeep of parish churches of the Church of England. This meant that Dissenters and other non-Anglicans paid for the support of the established Church. In the 1830s, however, the Dissenters determined to tolerate the situation no longer.

The resulting thirty-six-year struggle became the central church-state issue of the Victorian period.
Subjects: Church and state, Church history, Church tax, History, Liberalism, Politics and government, Dissenters, Histoire religieuse, Kirchensteuer, Church of England, Impôt ecclésiastique, Libéralisme, Kerk en staat, Histoire, Kerkelijke belasting, Liberalisme, Politique et gouvernement, Église et État, Geschichte 1832-1868, Church and state, great britain, Great britain, church history, 19th century, Great britain, politics and government, 1837-1901
Places: England, Great Britain
People: W. E. Gladstone (1809-1898)
Time periods: 1837-1901, 19th century