Religious identities in Britain, 1660-1832
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Religious identities in Britain, 1660-1832
Ashgate, c2005
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Through a series of studies focusing on individuals, this volume highlights the continued importance of religion and religious identity on British life throughout the long eighteenth century. From the Puritan divine and scholar Roger Morrice, active at the beginning of the period, to Dean Shipley who died in the reign of George IV, the individuals chosen chart a shifting world of enlightenment and revolution whilst simultaneously reaffirming the tremendous influence that religion continued to bring to bear. For, whilst religion has long enjoyed a central role in the study of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century British history, scholars of religion in the eighteenth century have often felt compelled to prove their subject's worth. Sitting uneasily at the juncture between the early modern and modern worlds, the eighteenth century has perhaps provided historians with an all-too-convenient peg on which to hang the origins of a secular society, in which religion takes a back-seat to politics, science and economics. Yet, as this study makes clear, in spite of the undoubted innovations and developments of this period, religion continued to be a prime factor in shaping society and culture. By exploring important connections between religion, politics and identity, and asking broad questions about the character of religion in Britain, the contributions put into context many of the big issues of the day. From the beliefs of the Jacobite rebels, to the notions of liberty and toleration, to the attitudes to the French Wars, the book makes an unambiguous and forceful statement about the centrality of religion to any proper understanding of British public life between the Restoration and the Reform Bill.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Introduction, William Gibson and Robert G. Ingram
- Roger Morrice and the history of Puritanism, Mark Goldie
- Charles Leslie and the political implications of theology, Robert Cornwall
- Attitudinarian equivocation: George Smalridge's churchmanship, William Gibson
- How heterodox was Benjamin Hoadly?, Guglielmo Sanna
- The Jacobite failure to bridge the Catholic/Protestant divide, 1717-30, Jeffrey S. Chamberlain
- William Warburton, divine action, and enlightened Christianity, Robert G. Ingram
- James Boswell and the bi-confessional state, James J. Caudle
- 'In the Church I will live and die': John Wesley, the Church of England, and Methodism, Jeremy Gregory
- The waning of Protestant unity and waxing of anti-Catholicism? Archdeacon Daubeny and the reconstruction of 'Anglican' identity in the Later Georgian Church, c.1780-c.1830, Peter B. Nockles
- Richard Price on reason and revolution, H.T. Dickinson
- The 'most horrid and unnatural state of man': John Henry Williams and the French wars, 1793-1802, Colin Haydon
- Sir George Pretyman-Tomline: ecclesiastical politician and theological polemicist, G.M. Ditchfield
- 'Achitophel Firebrand' at St. Asaph: Dean Shipley and the withering of Whiggism in the Church of England, 1775-1825, Nigel Aston
- Index.
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