The Victorian Church in Decline
The Victorian Church in Decline

Author: Peter T. Marsh

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-06-17

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1317222377

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First published in 1969, this book studies the years of decline in the Victorian Church between 1868 and 1882. It centres on the Archbishop Tait, who was paradoxically the most powerful Archbishop of Canterbury since the seventeenth century, and follows the policies he pursued, the high church opposition it provoked and the involvement of Parliament. This book will be of interest to students of history and religion of the Victorian era.

Victorian Faith in Crisis
Victorian Faith in Crisis

Author: Richard J. Helmstadter

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 9780804716024

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A Stanford University Press classic.

Religion in the Age of Decline
Religion in the Age of Decline

Author: S. J. D. Green

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-11-13

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9780521521208

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The seemingly inexorable decline of Christianity in Britain has long fascinated historians, sociologists and churchmen. They have also been exasperated by their failure to understand its origins or chart its progress. Sceptical both of traditional accounts and of their more recent rejection by revisionist writers, S. J. D. Green concentrates scholarly attention for the first time on the 'social history of the chapel' in a characteristic industrial-urban setting. He demonstrates just why so many churches were built in late Victorian Britain, who built them, who went to them, and why. He evaluates the 'associational ideal' during its period of greatest success, and explains the causes of its decline. In this way, Religion in the Age of Decline offers a fresh interpretation of the extent and the implications of the decline of religion in twentieth-century Britain.

The Death of Christian Britain
The Death of Christian Britain

Author: Callum G. Brown

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1135115532

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The Death of Christian Britain uses the latest techniques to offer new formulations of religion and secularisation and explores what it has meant to be 'religious' and 'irreligious' during the last 200 years. By listening to people's voices rather than purely counting heads, it offers a fresh history of de-christianisation, and predicts that the British experience since the 1960s is emblematic of the destiny of the whole of western Christianity. Challenging the generally held view that secularization has been a long and gradual process beginning with the industrial revolution, it proposes that it has been a catastrophic short term phenomenon starting with the 1960's. Is Christianity in Britain nearing extinction? Is the decline in Britain emblematic of the fate of western Christianity? Topical and controversial, The Death of Christian Britain is a bold and original work that will bring some uncomfortable truths to light.

The Victorian Church
The Victorian Church

Author: Chris Brooks

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9780719040207

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This is a reassessment of the phenomenon of church architecture in the 19th century. It presents a range of interpretations that approach Victorian churches as products of institutional needs, socio-cultural developments, and economic forces.

The Victorian Countryside
The Victorian Countryside

Author: G. E. Mingay

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9780415241953

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First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Victorian Nonconformity
Victorian Nonconformity

Author: David W Bebbington

Publisher: Lutterworth Press

Published: 2011-11-24

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 0718843061

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The Nonconformists of England and Wales, the Protestants outside the Church of England, were particularly numerous in the Victorian years. These Methodists, Congregationalists, Baptists, Quakers, Unitarians, and others helped shape society and made their mark in politics. This book explains the main characteristics of each denomination and examines the circumstances that enabled them to grow. It evaluates the main academic hypothesis about their role and points to signs of their subsequent decline in the twentieth century. Here is a succinct account of an important dimension of the Christian past in Britain.