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A History of Religion in Britain: Practice and Belief from Pre-Roman Times to the Present

Sheridan Gilley (Editor), W. J. Sheils (Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-631-19378-4
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608 pages
September 1994, ©1994, Wiley-Blackwell
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List of Plates.

Notes on Contributors.

Preface.

Introduction: Sheridan Gilley and W. J. Sheils.

Part I: Conversion and Christianity:.

1. Religion in Roman Britain: Martin Henig (University of Oxford).

2. Religion in Anglo-Saxon England: Gerald Bonner (University of Durham).

3. From the Conquest to the Black Death: Rosalind Hill (University of London).

4. Piety in the Later Middle Ages: Norman Tanner (University of Oxford).

5. Medieval Wales and the Reformation: Glanmor Williams (University of Swansea).

6. Religious Life in Medieval Scotland: Michael Lynch (University of Edinburgh).

Part II: Reform, Revival and Enlightenment:.

7. The Church in Scotland from the Reformation to Disruption: James K. Cameron.

8. Reformed Religion in England: W. J. Sheils (University of York).

9. Anglicanism in Stuart and Hanoverian England: Ian Green (University of Belfast).

10. Radical Sects and Dissenting Churches,1600-1750: Michael Mullet (University of Lancaster).

11. Rational Religion in England from Herbert of Cherbury to William Paley: David Pailin (University of Manchester).

12. Catholicism in England from the Reformation to the Relief Acts: W. J. Sheils (University of York).

13. Evangelical Revival in Eighteenth-Century Britain: W. R. Ward (University of Durham).

Part III: Industrialization, Empire and Identity: .

14. Church and State since 1800: Edward Norman (Christchurch College, Canterbury).

15. The Church of England in the Nineteenth Century: Sheridan Gilley (University of Durham).

16. Religious Life in Industrial Britain, 1830-1914: David Hempton (University of Belfast).

17. Hebrews Hellenized?: English Evangelical Nonconformity and Culture, 1840-1940: Clyde Binfield (University of Sheffield).

18. The Roman Catholic Church in England, 1780-1940: Sheridan Gilley (University of Durham).

19. Religion and Community in Scotland and Wales since 1800: Keith Robbins (University of Lancaster).

20. British Religion and the Wider World, Mission and Empire: Peter C. Williams (University of Bristol).

21. Secularists and Nationalists: Edward Royle (University of York).

Part IV: The Twentieth Century: .

22. The Jewish Community in Britain: Jonathan Campbell, University of Lampeter).

23. Religious Life Between the Wars: Stuart Mews (University of Lancaster).

24. The Christian Churches in England since the War: Ecumenism and Social Concern: Alan Suggate (University of Durham).

25. Religious Pluralism in Modern Britain: Paul Badham (University of Lampeter).

26. Secularization and the Future: Alan Gilbert (University of Sydney).

Chronology.

Selected Further Reading.

Index.

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