THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY CHURCH AND ENGLISH SOCIETY by Frances Knight ( 9780511585609 )

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THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY CHURCH AND ENGLISH SOCIETY

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ISBN 10:

0511585608

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9780511585609

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

6 July, 2010

Description:

The first study of lay people and parish clergy in the nineteenth-century Church of England.

Synopsis:

This is the first study to consider the meaning of Anglicanism for ordinary people in nineteenth-century England. Drawing extensively on unpublished sources, particularly those for rural areas, Frances Knight analyses the beliefs and practices of lay Anglicans and of the clergy who ministered to them. Building on arguments that the Church of England was in transition from state church to denomination, she argues that strong continuities with the past nevertheless remained. Through an examination of denominational identity, personal piety, Sunday church-going, and Anglican rites of passage she shows that the Church continued to cater for the beliefs and values of many Christians. Far from becoming a minority sect, the Anglican Church in the mid-Victorian period continued to claim the allegiance of one in four English people.

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1 b/w illus.

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Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

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