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Victorian Nonconformity
David Bebbington
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Description for Victorian Nonconformity
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 76 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HRCC9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 6. Weight in Grams: 130.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
James Clarke & Co Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
78
Condition
New
Number of Pages
76
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780718892692
SKU
V9780718892692
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99-2
About David Bebbington
David Bebbington has served since 1976 at the University of Stirling, where he is Professor of History. His books include Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980s (1989), The Mind of Gladstone: Religion, Homer and Politics (2004) and The Dominance of Evangelicalism: The Age of Spurgeon and Moody (2005).
Reviews for Victorian Nonconformity
'As David Bebbington shows in this excellent introduction, thoroughly revised and updated from a text originally published in 1992, Protestant Nonconformity was numerically thriving and culturally significant in Victorian England. ... This judicious and persuasive work, amply illustrated from contemporary sources and modern scholarship, is highly recommended.' Martin Wellings, in: Theology, September/October 2012 '...David Bebbington has succeeded admirably in ... Read more