Religion, Gender, and Industry: Exploring Church and Methodism in a Local Setting

Forsaith, Peter S. (Editor)/ Hammond, Geordan (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0227173872 / ISBN 13: 9780227173879

Published by James Clarke, 2012

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258 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Religion, Gender, and Industry: Exploring Church and Methodism in a Local Setting
• Publisher: James Clarke
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0227173872
• ISBN 13: 9780227173879
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.39 kilograms

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Synopsis

A collection of essays that aim to consider broad questions of the role of religion in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain by studying a single geographical area. Coalbrookdale in the parish of Madeley, Shropshire is seen as the "birthplace of the industrial revolution" while remaining one of the last examples of a Methodist parish in England. These works engage with a variety of areas of study: Methodism's roots and growth in relation to the Church of England, religion and gender in eighteenth century Britain, and religion and the emergence of an industrial society, and do so from a variety of different approaches: historical, theological, economic and sociological. The result is not only a through examination of a single parish but a consideration of its relation to larger themes in eighteenth-century Britain and the impact of English Methodism on nineteenth-century American Methodism.

About the Author

Geordan Hammond is Lecturer in Church History and Wesley Studies, Nazarene Theological College and Director of the Manchester Wesley Research Centre, UK. Peter S. Forsaith is Research Fellow at The Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, Oxford Brookes University, UK.