Was the nineteenth-century working class as irreligious as the 1851
census of religious worship appeared to show? Or were there some
industrial areas where large numbers of them actually went to
church? Birmingham and the Black Country provide evidence for both
religion and irreligion, but was the better church attendance of
the Black Country the result of panic reactions to cholera
epidemics or intensive evangelism? How did ordinary people respond
to the attempts of the churches to recruit them? Did evangelical
conversion result from fear of hell? This book sets out to answer
these questions on the basis of an analysis of original sources,
many of them unpublished, from the years leading up to the 1851
census. Offering a fresh approach to the patterns of religious
belief and practice in the Victorian Midlands of early
industrialized England, Geoff Robson returns to primary and
secondary sources to reassess the debate. His dissertation focuses
on the working-classes of Birmingham and the Black Country and it
brings remarkable insight to the lives of people during this time.
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