Friends, Neighbours, Sinners: Religious Difference and English Society, 1689-1750

Brown Carys

ISBN 10: 1009221337 / ISBN 13: 9781009221337

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2024

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Friends, Neighbours, Sinners: Religious Difference and English Society, 1689-1750
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009221337
• ISBN 13: 9781009221337
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Friends, Neighbours, Sinners demonstrates the fundamental ways in which religious difference shaped English society in the first half of the eighteenth century. By examining the social subtleties of interactions between people of differing beliefs, and how they were mediated through languages and behaviours common to the long eighteenth century, Carys Brown examines the graduated layers of religious exclusivity that influenced everyday existence. By doing so, the book points towards a new approach to the social and cultural history of the eighteenth century, one that acknowledges the integral role of the dynamics of religious difference in key aspects of eighteenth-century life. This book therefore proposes not just to add to current understanding of religious coexistence in this period, but to shift our ways of thinking about the construction of social discourses, parish politics, and cultural spaces in eighteenth-century England.

About the Author

Carys Brown is a Research Fellow at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. She has published articles in The Historical Journal, British Catholic History, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and Cultural and Social History.