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Author Snell, K. D. M

Title Rival Jerusalems : the Geography of Victorian Religion
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (517 pages)
Contents Preliminaries; Contents; Figures; Tables; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The 1851 Census of Religious Worship; 2 The Church of England; 3 Old dissent: the Presbyterians, Independents, Baptists, Quakers and Unitarians; 4 The geographies of new dissent; 5 Roman Catholicism and Irish immigration; 6 Denominational co-existence, reciprocity or exclusion?; 7 A prospect of fifteen counties; 8 From Henry Compton to Horace Mann: stability or relocation in Catholicism and Nonconformity; 9 The Sunday school movement: child labour, denominational control and working-class culture
10 Free or appropriated sittings: the Anglican Church in perspective11 Conformity, dissent and the influence of landownership; 12 Urbanisation and regional secularisation; Technical appendices; Bibliography; Index
Summary This pioneering book offers a complete geography of religion in England and Wales, and includes exhaustive analyses of many religious questions and debates. It describes the geographical patterns of the major English and Welsh religious denominations, and their importance for political history, before tackling a range of further key issues
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Subject Christian sociology -- England -- History -- 19th century
Christian sociology -- Wales -- History -- 19th century
Christian sociology
SUBJECT England -- Church history -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043270
Wales -- Church history -- 19th century
Subject England
Wales
Genre/Form Church history
History
Form Electronic book
Author Ell, Paul S
ISBN 9780511049552
0511049552