Church, State and Society, 1760-1850

ISBN-13: 9780333587577 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 224 str.

William Gibson

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...a very effective survey of an important theme on British political and social history...' - Andrew Chandler, Midland History ...this book effectively discharges its proclaimed purpose...a sound, successful and informative survey.' - Ian Christie, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History ...the volume provides a balanced and useful overview of the latest scholarship on an important period in church history...' - Carla H. Hay, Albion ...a useful and balanced survey of the condition of the Established Church at the accession of George III...for anyone seeking a straightforward up-to-date survey, this is the book to begin with...a very useful book...' - John Guy, The Journal of Welsh Religious History In this wide-ranging book, William Gibson examines the principal themes in the developing relationship between the churches, the state and society between 1760 and 1850. Among other issues this book examines the involvement of the Church of England in Politics, the development of a clerical profession, the work of the bishops and clergy, the economic position of the church, the Church's reaction to the French and American Revolutions, the exercise of Church Patronage by premiers, the development of Church parties, the growth of Toleration, the reaction of the churches to industrialisation, the Halevy debate, the reform of the church after 1830, the development of Nonconformity and the state of religion and social groups in 1850.

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Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- PART ONE THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH IN 1760.- The Church's Involvement in Politics.- The Development of the Clerical Profession.- The Character of the Episcopate Pluralism and Non-residence.- The Church and People in 1760.- Clerical Incomes.- A Reformed and Unreformed Church? The Church in Wales.- PART TWO CHURCH AND STATE 1760-1830.- The Church's Relations with the State: the American Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery.- The Impact of the French Revolution.- The Tory Government and Church Patronage 1812-30.- Church Parties: The Hackney Phalanx and the Clapham Sect.- The Church, Toleration and Emancipation, 1760-1830.- PART THREE RELIGION AND SOCIAL CHANGE.- Methodism and Politics: The Halevy Thesis.- Patterns of Religious Practice 1760-1850.- The Urban Church and Industrialisation.- The Church's Wider Social Missions.- PART FOUR THE CHURCH AND THE REFORMS OF THE 1830s.- The Church and the 1832 Reform Act.- The Church and the Ecclesiastical Reforms of the 1830s.- The Whigs and Church Patronage: 1830-41.- Reform and the Oxford Movement.- PART FIVE RELIGION AND SOCIETY OUTSIDE THE ESTABLISHMENT.- Roman Catholicism and 'Papal Aggression'.- The New Dissent: The Development of Methodism.- Old Dissent: Variety and Convergence.- Religion without Christianity: The Jews.- PART SIX RELIGION IN MID-VICTORIAN ENGLAND.- The Religious Census of 1851.- Religion and Cultural Change.- Religion, The Family and Women.- Religion and the Working Classes by 1851.- A Note on Sources.- Notes.- Bibliography.