Nonconformity in Nineteenth Century York
Author: Edward Royle
Publisher: Borthwick Publications
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781904497431
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Edward Royle
Publisher: Borthwick Publications
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781904497431
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robin Gill
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 1351890719
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When did churches start to appear more empty than full - and why? The very physicality of largely empty churches and chapels in Britain plays a powerful role in popular perceptions of 'religion'. Empty churches are frequently cited in the media as evidence of large scale religious decline. The 'Empty' Church Revisited presents a systematic account of British churchgoing patterns over the last two hundred years, uncovering the factors and the statistics behind the considerable process of decline in church attendence. Dispelling as myth the commonly held views that the process of secularization in British culture has led to the decline in churchgoing and resulted in the predominantly empty churches of today, Gill points to physical factors, economics and issues of social space to shed new light on the origins of empty churches. This thoroughly updated edition of Robin Gill's earlier work, The Myth of the Empty Church, presents new data throughout to explore afresh the paradox of church building activity in a context of decline, the patterns of urbanisation followed by sub-urbanisation affecting churches, changes in patterns of worship, and changes within the sociology of religion in the last decade.
Author: Roger Swift
Publisher: Borthwick Publications
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9780903857314
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Wright Sheila Wright
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2019-08-08
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1474473679
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study challenges John Stephenson Rowntree's pronouncement in 1835 that Quaker membership was in decline, and outlines the remarkable revitalization of one Monthly Meeting - in York - between 1780 and 1860.
Author: J. A. Sharpe
Publisher: Borthwick Publications
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780903857390
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Christopher J. Morris
Publisher: Borthwick Publications
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9780903857406
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robin Gill
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-05-15
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1351879855
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Theology Shaped by Society argues that the sociology of knowledge can make an important contribution to theology. Part I argues that theology can be seen as a 'socially constructed reality' that is sometimes dangerously related to power but, at other times, that is a positively engaged discipline taking the risk of being shaped by particular societies and cultures. From this second perspective theology is seen properly as a thoroughly relational discipline, as itself a social system. Part II examines mission shaped by society and maps this in practical terms by examining recent, and surprising, religious trends in York. Part III shows how music can imaginatively shape theology and reveal unexpected resonances. Over the last 30 years a number of theologians have been using aspects of sociology alongside the more traditional resources of philosophy. In turn, sociologists with an interest in theology have also contributed to an interaction between theology and sociology. The time is right to revisit the dialogue between theologians and sociologists. In his new trilogy on Sociological Theology, Robin Gill makes a renewed contribution to the mapping of three abiding ways of relating theology and sociology, with the three volumes covering: Theology in a Social Context; Theology Shaped by Society; and Society Shaped by Theology.
Author: John Wolffe
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1134960158
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Concern and debate over the role of religion in the make up of the United Kingdom is a contemporaneously relevant as it was in the nineteenth century. God and Greater Britain is a survey of the contribution of religion to society, politics, culture and national self-understanding in Britain and Ireland at a pivotal period in their historical development. It derives from primary research as well as from an extensive synthesis of the secondary literature. John Wolffe's timely and stimulating appraisal of the centrality of religion is well illustrated with specific episodes and uniquely places religion in a firm historical perspective.
Author: Roger G. Cooper
Publisher: Borthwick Publications
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780903857499
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Clive D. Field
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2019-10-31
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0198848803
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Moving beyond the (now somewhat tired) debates about secularization as paradigm, theory, or master narrative, Periodizing Secularization focuses upon the empirical evidence for secularization, viewed in its descriptive sense as the waning social influence of religion, in Britain. Particular emphasis is attached to the two key performance indicators of religious allegiance and churchgoing, each subsuming several sub-indicators, between 1880 and 1945, including the first substantive account of secularization during the fin de siecle. A wide range of primary sources is deployed, many of them relatively or entirely unknown, and with due regard to their methodological and interpretative challenges. On the back of them, a cross-cutting statistical measure of 'active church adherence' is devised, which clearly shows how secularization has been a reality and a gradual, not revolutionary, process. The most likely causes of secularization were an incremental demise of a Sabbatarian culture (coupled with the associated emergence of new leisure opportunities and transport links) and of religious socialization (in the church, at home, and in the school). The analysis is also extended backwards, to include a summary of developments during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; and laterally, to incorporate a preliminary evaluation of a six-dimensional model of 'diffusive religion', demonstrating that these alternative performance indicators have hitherto failed to prove that secularization has not occurred. The book is designed as a prequel to the author's previous volumes on the chronology of British secularization - Britain's Last Religious Revival? (2015) and Secularization in the Long 1960s (2017). Together, they offer a holistic picture of religious transformation in Britain during the key secularizing century of 1880-1980.