Download Religion, Gender, and Industry: Exploring Church and by Geordan Hammond PDF

By Geordan Hammond

A set of essays that target to think about large questions of the position of faith in overdue eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain through learning a unmarried geographical sector. Coalbrookdale within the parish of Madeley, Shropshire is obvious because the "birthplace of the commercial revolution" whereas final one of many final examples of a Methodist parish in England. those works interact with various parts of analysis: Methodism's roots and development in terms of the Church of britain, faith and gender in eighteenth century Britain, and faith and the emergence of an commercial society, and accomplish that from quite a few varied methods: old, theological, monetary and sociological. the result's not just a via exam of a unmarried parish yet a attention of its relation to bigger topics in eighteenth-century Britain and the effect of English Methodism on nineteenth-century American Methodism.

Show description

Read Online or Download Religion, Gender, and Industry: Exploring Church and Methodism in a Local Setting PDF

Best protestantism books

Scripture Confessions for Healing: Life-changing Words of Faith for Every Day (Scripture Confessions)

With today’s busy and critical schedules, all of us want God’s be aware anywhere we move! This little publication is full of custom-made, Scripture-based confessions for health and wellbeing and therapeutic and for finances.  Readers can now arm themselves with the note of God to win life's battles. The Scripture Confessions sequence connects the reader to the undying passages in God's notice that talk to the problems of so much drawback to them.

God's Fields: Landscape, Religion, and Race in Moravian Wachovia

The Moravian group of Salem, North Carolina, was once based in 1766, and the townthe hub of approximately 100,000 piedmont acres bought 13 years ahead of and named Wachoviaquickly grew to become the focus for the churchs colonial presence within the South. whereas the brethren preached the team spirit of all people less than God, a cautious research of the start and development in their Salem payment unearths that the crowd progressively embraced the associations of slavery and racial segregation towards their spiritual ideals.

The United Church of Christ in the Shenandoah Valley : liberal church, traditional congregations

Whereas congregational reports have accelerated our knowing of yankee faith, little is understood concerning the neighborhood practices of a unmarried denomination at its smallest jurisdiction. This ebook explores how nationwide denominational commitments are affecting the practices of neighborhood United Church of Christ congregations inside of a unmarried organization within the Shenandoah Valley.

Additional resources for Religion, Gender, and Industry: Exploring Church and Methodism in a Local Setting

Sample text

John Rylands University Library. Eng MS 1069 (2). 12. Barrie Trinder, “Schisms and Divisions: The Origins of Dissenting Congregations in Banbury 1772–1860,” Cake & Cockhorse 8 (1982) 207–21. 13. Barrie Trinder, The Market Town Lodging House in Victorian England (Leicester: Friends of the Centre for English Local History, 2001). ”14 There is a temptation to enjoy the repetition of this kind of rhetoric, which cannot be accepted as a valid description of a complex community, any more than railway navvies can be disparaged as Irishmen who habitually became intoxicated.

Popular Evangelicalism and Work in the Eighteenth Century,” in The Use and Abuse of Time in Church History, ed. R. N. Swanson, Studies in Church History 37 (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2002) 223–41. 31. W. J. Townsend, “The Times and Conditions,” in Townsend, Workman, and Eayres, A New History of Methodism, 2 vols. (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909) 1:77–133, and “English Life and Society, and the Condition of Methodism at the Death of Wesley,” 1:335–78, at 82. Religion, Gender, and Industry in the Eighteenth Century the nineteenth century and for much of the twentieth century, whatever their own political and religious standpoints.

These include Edwin Welch, Spiritual Pilgrim: A Reassessment of the Life of the Countess of Huntingdon (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1995) and Boyd Schlenther, Queen of the Methodists: The Countess of Huntingdon and the Eighteenth-Century Crisis of Faith and Society (Bishop Auckland: Durham Academic Press, 1997).  E. Chalus, Elite Women in English Political Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). 60. Amanda Vickery, “Golden Age to Separate Spheres: A Review of the Categories and Chronology of English Women’s History,” Historical Journal 36 (1993) 383–414.

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.14 of 5 – based on 13 votes