Religion, Gender, and Industry
Exploring Church and Methodism in a Local Setting
What part did religion play in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain? How did the local situation differ from the national picture? What was the role of women in society and the church? And how did the emerging centers of industrial activity interact with the places in which they sprung up? These are wide questions, but they can be seen in microcosm in one small area of the English midlands: the parish of Madeley, Shropshire, in which was the birthplace of the industrial revolution, Coalbrookdale. Here, the evangelical Methodist clergyman John Fletcher ministered between 1760 and 1785, among a population including Catholics an…
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Weitere Autoren: Forsaith, Peter (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-62189-342-4
- EAN: 9781621893424
- Produktnummer: 30238010
- Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 258 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'871 KB
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Geordan Hammond is Senior 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.
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