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Church of England and British politics since 1900 /

Bringing together researchers in modern British religious, political, intellectual and social history, this volume considers the persistence of the Church's public significance, despite its falling membership.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rodger, Tom (Editor ), Williamson, Philip, 1953- (Editor ), Grimley, Matthew (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK : Boydell Press, 2020.
Colección:Studies in modern British religious history ; v. 41.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontcover
  • Contents
  • Notes on contributors
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations and locations of principal collections
  • Introduction: the Church of England, the British state and British politics during the twentieth century
  • 1. The politics of Church defence: Archbishop Davidson, the national church and the 'national interest', c. 1900-14
  • 2. Archbishops and the monarchy: leadership in British religion, 1900-2012
  • 3. Ecclesiastical conservatism: Hensley Henson and Lord Hugh Cecil on Church, state and nation, c. 1900-40
  • 4. Hensley Henson, the prayer book controversy and the conservative case for disestablishment
  • 5. Assembling an Anglican view of self-governing sexual citizenship, 1918-45
  • 6. Politics in the parish: Joseph Needham at Thaxted, c. 1925-85
  • 7. Anglicans, reconstruction and democracy: the Cripps circle, 1939-52
  • 8. Parliament and the law of the Church of England, 1943-74
  • 9. The Church of England and religious education during the twentieth century
  • 10. Spiritual authority in a 'secular age': the Lords Spiritual, c. 1950-80
  • 11. 'A sort of official duty to reconcile': Archbishop Fisher, the Church of England and the politics of British decolonization in East and Central Africa
  • 12. A 'baffling task': Archbishop Fisher and the Suez Crisis
  • 13. John Collins, Martin Luther King, Jr, and transnational networks of protest and resistance in the Church of England during the 1960s
  • 14. The Church of England, minority religions and the making of communal pluralism
  • Index