The Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; FURTHER READING; PART 1 THE NINETEENTH CENTURY; CHAPTER ONE 'Official Religion'; NOTES; CHAPTER TWO The Intellectual Challenge to 'Official Religion'; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; CHAPTER THREE East Comes West; NOTES; PART 2 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY; CHAPTER FOUR The Christian Religion; THE TWO DECLENSIONS; THE INSTITUTIONAL CHURCHES; THE ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT; CHRISTIAN PUBLIC WITNESS; THEOLOGY; WORSHIP; WOMEN; CONCLUSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; CHAPTER FIVE Other Major Religious Traditions
Summary
A source book for the study of religions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries challenging the view that Britain is and has been a predominantly single religion country. This pluralism is shown to apply within Christianity as well as outside