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Title Church of England and British politics since 1900 / edited by Tom Rodger, Philip Williamson and Matthew Grimley
Published Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : Boydell Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource
Series Studies in modern British religious history, 1464-6625 ; volume 41
Studies in modern British religious history ; v. 41.
Contents Frontcover -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Abbreviations and locations of principal collections -- Introduction: the Church of England, the British state and British politics during the twentieth century -- 1. The politics of Church defence: Archbishop Davidson, the national church and the 'national interest', c. 1900-14 -- 2. Archbishops and the monarchy: leadership in British religion, 1900-2012 -- 3. Ecclesiastical conservatism: Hensley Henson and Lord Hugh Cecil on Church, state and nation, c. 1900-40
4. Hensley Henson, the prayer book controversy and the conservative case for disestablishment -- 5. Assembling an Anglican view of self-governing sexual citizenship, 1918-45 -- 6. Politics in the parish: Joseph Needham at Thaxted, c. 1925-85 -- 7. Anglicans, reconstruction and democracy: the Cripps circle, 1939-52 -- 8. Parliament and the law of the Church of England, 1943-74 -- 9. The Church of England and religious education during the twentieth century -- 10. Spiritual authority in a 'secular age': the Lords Spiritual, c. 1950-80
11. 'A sort of official duty to reconcile': Archbishop Fisher, the Church of England and the politics of British decolonization in East and Central Africa -- 12. A 'baffling task': Archbishop Fisher and the Suez Crisis -- 13. John Collins, Martin Luther King, Jr, and transnational networks of protest and resistance in the Church of England during the 1960s -- 14. The Church of England, minority religions and the making of communal pluralism -- Index
Summary Bringing together researchers in modern British religious, political, intellectual and social history, this volume considers the persistence of the Church's public significance, despite its falling membership
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Church of England -- History -- 20th century
Church of England -- History -- 21st century
SUBJECT Church of England fast
Subject Church and state -- Great Britain -- 20th century
Church and state -- Great Britain -- 21st century
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General.
Church and state
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Rodger, Tom, editor.
Williamson, Philip, 1953- editor.
Grimley, Matthew, editor.
ISBN 9781787448209
1787448207
9781787449596
1787449599