Religion in Victorian London

ISBN-13: 9780192897404 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 352 str.

W. M. Jacob

Recenzje

Jacob shows that the Church in London was committed to a "preferential option for the poor" a century before that maxim was coined - even though the well-off maintained a strict social distance from the destitute.

O autorze

W.M.Jacob is a Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London. He previously taught church history, focusing on the social history of religion, at Salisbury and Wells Theological College, Lincoln Theological College, and the University of Wales Lampeter. His books include Laypeople and Religion in the Early-Eighteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 1996), The Clerical Profession in the Long-Eighteenth Century (OUP, 2007), and The Church in Wales from the Reformation to Disestablishment (University of Wales Press, 2007).