Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930
Author: Gail Malmgreen
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 328
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Women and Religion in England
Author: Patricia Crawford
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-03-18
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 1136097562
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPatricia Crawford explores how the study of gender can enhance our understanding of religious history, in this study of women and their apprehensions of God in early modern England. The book has three broad themes: the role of women in the religious upheaval in the period from the Reformation to the Restoration; the significance of religion to contemporary women, focusing on the range of practices and beliefs; and the role of gender in the period. The author argues that religion in the early modern period cannot be understood without a perception of the gendered nature of its beliefs, institutions and language. Contemporary religious ideology reinforced women's inferior position, but, as the author shows, it was possible for some women to transcend these beliefs and profoundly influence history.
British Women's Life Writing, 1760-1840
Author: A. Culley
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-07-22
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1137274220
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBritish Women's Life Writing, 1760-1840 brings together for the first time a wide range of print and manuscript sources to demonstrate women's innovative approach to self-representation. It examines canonical writers, such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson, and Helen Maria Williams, amongst others.
The Spiritual Lives and Manuscript Cultures of Eighteenth-Century English Women
Author: Cynthia Aalders
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2024-05-16
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0198872305
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Spiritual Lives and Manuscript Cultures of Eighteenth-Century English Women explores the vital and unexplored ways in which women's life writings acted to undergird, guide, and indeed shape religious communities. Through an exploration of various significant but understudied personal relationships- including mentorship by older women, spiritual friendship, and care for nonbiological children-the book demonstrates the multiple ways in which women were active in writing religious communities. The women discussed here belonged to communities that habitually communicated through personal writing. At the same time, their acts of writing were creative acts, powerful to build and shape religious communities: these women wrote religious community. The book consists of a series of interweaving case studies and focuses on Catherine Talbot (1721-70), Anne Steele (1717-78), and Ann Bolton (1743-1822), and on their literary interactions with friends and family. Considered together, these subjects and sources allow comparison across denomination, for Talbot was Anglican, Steele a Baptist, and Bolton a Methodist. Further, it considers women's life writings as spiritual legacy, as manuscripts were preserved by female friends and family members and continued to function in religious communities after the death of their authors. Various strands of enquiry weave through the book: questions of gender and religion, themselves inflected by denomination; themes related to life writings and manuscript cultures; and the interplay between the writer as individual and her relationships and communal affiliations. The result is a variegated and highly textured account of eighteenth-century women's spiritual and writing lives.
Women, Gender and Religious Cultures in Britain, 1800-1940
Author: Sue Morgan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-06-10
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 1136972331
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is the first comprehensive overview of women, gender and religious change in modern Britain spanning from the evangelical revival of the early 1800s to interwar debates over women’s roles and ministry. This collection of pieces by key scholars combines cross-disciplinary insights from history, gender studies, theology, literature, religious studies, sexuality and postcolonial studies. The book takes a thematic approach, providing students and scholars with a clear and comparative examination of ten significant areas of cultural activity that both shaped, and were shaped by women’s religious beliefs and practices: family life, literary and theological discourses, philanthropic networks, sisterhoods and deaconess institutions, revivals and preaching ministry, missionary organisations, national and transnational political reform networks, sexual ideas and practices, feminist communities, and alternative spiritual traditions. Together, the volume challenges widely-held truisms about the increasingly private and domesticated nature of faith, the feminisation of religion and the relationship between secularisation and modern life. Including case studies, further reading lists, and a survey of the existing scholarship, and with a British rather than Anglo-centric approach, this is an ideal book for anyone interested in women's religious experiences across the nineteeth and twentieth centuries.
Religion in Victorian Britain
Author: Gerald Parsons
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780719051845
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides an expansion of the first four volumes, containing both specially written essays and a related compilation of primary sources, drawn from the writings of the day. The text explores the wider context of religion in Victorian Britain, both in relation to the development of the Empire and its consequences. The introduction sets the scene and also provides an overview of scholarship on Victorian religion in the years since the first four volumes were published in 1988.
Gender, Power and the Unitarians in England, 1760-1860
Author: Ruth Watts
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-06
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1317888618
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new study explores the role the Unitarians played in female emancipation. Many leading figures of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were Unitarian, or were heavily influenced by Unitarian ideas, including: Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, and Florence Nightingale. Ruth Watts examines how far they were successful in challenging the ideas and social conventions affecting women. In the process she reveals the complex relationship between religion, gender, class and education and her study will be essential reading for those studying the origins of the feminist movement, nineteenth-century gender history, religious history or the history of education.
Music and Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: Martin Clarke
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-22
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1317092260
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe interrelationship of music and theology is a burgeoning area of scholarship in which conceptual issues have been explored by musicologists and theologians including Jeremy Begbie, Quentin Faulkner and Jon Michael Spencer. Their important work has opened up opportunities for focussed, critical studies of the ways in which music and theology can be seen to interact in specific repertoires, genres, and institutions as well as the work of particular composers, religious leaders and scholars. This collection of essays explores such areas in relation to the religious, musical and social history of nineteenth-century Britain. The book does not simply present a history of sacred music of the period, but examines the role of music in the diverse religious life of a century that encompassed the Oxford Movement, Catholic Emancipation, religious revivals involving many different denominations, the production of several landmark hymnals and greater legal recognition for religions other than Christianity. The book therefore provides a valuable guide to the music of this complex historical period.
Anglican Women on Church and Mission
Author: Judith Berling
Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2013-04
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0819228044
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the past several decades, the issues of women’s ordination and of homosexuality have unleashed intense debates on the nature and mission of the Church, authority and the future of the Anglican Communion. Amid such momentous debates, theological voices of women in the Anglican Communion have not been clearly heard, until now. This book invites the reader to reconsider the theological basis of the Church and its call to mission in the 21st century, paying special attention to the colonial legacy of the Anglican Church and the shift of Christian demographics to the Global South. In addition to essays by the volume editors, this 12-essay collection includes contributions by Jane Shaw, Ellen Wondra and Beverley Haddad, among others.
The ‘Estranged’ Generation? Social and Generational Change in Interwar British Jewry
Author: David Dee
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-08-22
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 1349952389
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focuses on the nature and extent of social change, integration and identity transformation within the Jewish community of Britain during the interwar years. It probes the notion – widely articulated by Jewish communal leaders at this time – that the immigrant second generation (i.e. British and foreign-born children of Russian and Eastern European Jews who migrated to Britain in the late Victorian era up to the First World War) had ‘estranged’ themselves from their Jewishness, Jewish elders and peers and were fast assimilating into the British mainstream.The volume analyses the second generation’s developing outlooks and behavioural trends in a variety of environments, effectively charting the changes and continuities present therein. As a whole, the book sheds light on the varied ways in which this group developed new identities that both drew from and reflected their Jewish and British heritage.
