Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Urdank, Albion M., author

Title Birth, death, and religious faith in an English dissenting community : a microhistory of Nailsworth and Hinterland, 1695-1837 / Albion M. Urdank
Published Lanham : Lexington Books, [2016]

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xvi, 133 pages)
Contents Religious enthusiasm and reproduction : a probabilistic connection -- Implicit narratives : textuality and emotion in demographic behavior -- Baptist fertility -- Anglican fertility -- Mortality -- Appendix 1: Fecund fertility rates by timing of female Baptist conversion -- Appendix 2: Spacing of selected birth intervals (baptist) -- Appendix 3: Fecund fertility rates by Anglican and Baptist female conversion : fecundity length -- Appendix 4: Fecund fertility rates from combined Anglican and Baptist by female conversion -- Appendix 5: Spacing of selected birth intervals (anglican) -- Appendix 6: Infant and child mortality and burial rates -- Appendix 7: Age-specific adult burial rates 1695-1837 : overall and by gender, tables A and B -- Appendix 8: Age-specific adult burial 1695-1768 and 1769-1837 : life-table analyses
Summary "This microanalysis of population levels among Protestant dissenters in England during an era of evangelical revival uses advanced statistical methodologies to examine the demographic effects of religious conversion experiences"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-124) and index
Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed
Subject Dissenters, Religious -- England -- Nailsworth Region -- History
Dissenters, Religious -- England -- Nailsworth Region -- Statistics
Childbirth -- England -- Nailsworth Region -- Religious aspects -- History
Death -- England -- Nailsworth Region -- Religious aspects -- History
Fertility, Human -- England -- Nailsworth Region -- Religious aspects -- History
Mortality -- England -- Nailsworth Region -- Religious aspects -- History
Conversion -- Social aspects -- England -- Nailsworth Region -- Religious aspects -- History
Faith -- Social aspects -- England -- Nailsworth Region -- Religious aspects -- History
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Denominations.
Childbirth -- Religious aspects
Death -- Religious aspects
Dissenters, Religious
Fertility, Human -- Religious aspects
Population
SUBJECT Nailsworth Region (England) -- Church history
Nailsworth Region (England) -- Population -- History
Subject England -- Nailsworth
Genre/Form Church history
History
Statistics
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021677837
ISBN 9781498523530
1498523536
9781498523530