A Short History of Religion in Britain: Practice & Belief from Pre-Roman Times to the Present

ISBN-13: 9780631193784 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 608 str.

Sheridan Gilley;Gilley;Sheils

Opis

This book is the first one volume history of religious belief and practice in England, Wales and Scotland. It covers the period from Roman times to the present and has been written by twenty-three scholars, all writing accessibly for a wide readership.

Recenzje

"The syllabus requirements for religious education in schools, and the appetites of TV programme–makers, are increasingly emphasising the place of religion as part of the general cultural inheritance. This is a book which will be a valued resource for their interests. But it is also a collection from which Christians themselves will derive insights into a religion which is inherently historical. This collection is impressive in the quality of the essays. There are some really outstanding contributions to interpretation here." Church Times

"With suggestions for further reading and a chronology which itself runs to ten pages, this is as complete a single–volume history of the subject as one would wish to have. One ends the book wishing to applaud, and not merely because the Editors′ aims have been brilliantly achieved." Chesterton Review

"It provides a very welcome series of scholarly insights which will be of substantial value to the church historian." EHR

Spis treści

List of Plates.

Notes on Contributors.

Preface.

Introduction: Sheridan Gilley and W. J. Sheils.

Part I: Conversion and Christianity:.

1. Religion in Roman Britain: Martin Henig (University of Oxford).

2. Religion in Anglo–Saxon England: Gerald Bonner (University of Durham).

3. From the Conquest to the Black Death: Rosalind Hill (University of London).

4. Piety in the Later Middle Ages: Norman Tanner (University of Oxford).

5. Medieval Wales and the Reformation: Glanmor Williams (University of Swansea).

6. Religious Life in Medieval Scotland: Michael Lynch (University of Edinburgh).

Part II: Reform, Revival and Enlightenment:.

7. The Church in Scotland from the Reformation to Disruption: James K. Cameron.

8. Reformed Religion in England: W. J. Sheils (University of York).

9. Anglicanism in Stuart and Hanoverian England: Ian Green (University of Belfast).

10. Radical Sects and Dissenting Churches,1600–1750: Michael Mullet (University of Lancaster).

11. Rational Religion in England from Herbert of Cherbury to William Paley: David Pailin (University of Manchester).

12. Catholicism in England from the Reformation to the Relief Acts: W. J. Sheils (University of York).

13. Evangelical Revival in Eighteenth–Century Britain: W. R. Ward (University of Durham).

Part III: Industrialization, Empire and Identity: .

14. Church and State since 1800: Edward Norman (Christchurch College, Canterbury).

15. The Church of England in the Nineteenth Century: Sheridan Gilley (University of Durham).

16. Religious Life in Industrial Britain, 1830–1914: David Hempton (University of Belfast).

17. Hebrews Hellenized?: English Evangelical Nonconformity and Culture, 1840–1940: Clyde Binfield (University of Sheffield).

18. The Roman Catholic Church in England, 1780–1940: Sheridan Gilley (University of Durham).

19. Religion and Community in Scotland and Wales since 1800: Keith Robbins (University of Lancaster).

20. British Religion and the Wider World, Mission and Empire: Peter C. Williams (University of Bristol).

21. Secularists and Nationalists: Edward Royle (University of York).

Part IV: The Twentieth Century: .

22. The Jewish Community in Britain: Jonathan Campbell, University of Lampeter).

23. Religious Life Between the Wars: Stuart Mews (University of Lancaster).

24. The Christian Churches in England since the War: Ecumenism and Social Concern: Alan Suggate (University of Durham).

25. Religious Pluralism in Modern Britain: Paul Badham (University of Lampeter).

26. Secularization and the Future: Alan Gilbert (University of Sydney).

Chronology.

Selected Further Reading.

Index.

O autorze

Sheridan Gilley is Head of the Department of Theology at the University of Durham.

W. J. Sheils is Provost of Goodricke College, University of York.

Blurb

The religious beliefs and practices of the peoples of Britain have played a central role in the island′s culture, history and destiny, and have done so from the earliest times to the present. Different gods, rituals and churches have struggled for pre–eminence. They have been changed and shifted by conquests, wars, missions, leaders, rulers, ideas, immigrants, tolerance and bigotry.

This book is the first one–volume history of religious belief and practice in England, Wales and Scotland. It covers the period from Roman times to the present. Its focus is on the worship and the beliefs of the British peoples, the questions which exercised them, and the degree to which belief and practice were changed by institutional reforms and upheavals in church or state. Christianity occupies the greater part of the book, but considerable space is devoted to pre–Christian and non– Christian beliefs, in particular Judaism and Islam.

The history is divided into four parts. Part I covers Roman Britain, the conversion of Britain and the middle ages. Part II describes the Reformation and its effects in the sixteenth century, radicalism, dissent and war in the seventeenth century, and the influence of evangelicalism and rationality in the eighteenth. Part III discusses the impact of industrialization, the mission to the Empire, and the revival of Roman Catholicism. Part IV is devoted to the twentieth century to the plurality of religious experience, the loss of belief and the forms in which it has been regained, and to the possible nature of religious practice in the future. What emerges from the volume as a whole is the diversity of religious experience in the past and the great variety of approaches that can be adopted to understand that diversity.

The book concludes with a chronology, an annotated guide to further reading by subject, and a comprehensive index.