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Religious Identities in Britain, 1660-1832 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Religious Identities in Britain, 1660-1832 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Through a series of studies focusing on individuals, this volume
highlights the continued importance of religion and religious
identity on British life throughout the long eighteenth century.
From the Puritan divine and scholar Roger Morrice, active at the
beginning of the period, to Dean Shipley who died in the reign of
George IV, the individuals chosen chart a shifting world of
enlightenment and revolution whilst simultaneously reaffirming the
tremendous influence that religion continued to bring to bear. For,
whilst religion has long enjoyed a central role in the study of
sixteenth- and seventeenth-century British history, scholars of
religion in the eighteenth century have often felt compelled to
prove their subject's worth. Sitting uneasily at the juncture
between the early modern and modern worlds, the eighteenth century
has perhaps provided historians with an all-too-convenient peg on
which to hang the origins of a secular society, in which religion
takes a back-seat to politics, science and economics. Yet, as this
study makes clear, in spite of the undoubted innovations and
developments of this period, religion continued to be a prime
factor in shaping society and culture. By exploring important
connections between religion, politics and identity, and asking
broad questions about the character of religion in Britain, the
contributions put into context many of the big issues of the day.
From the beliefs of the Jacobite rebels, to the notions of liberty
and toleration, to the attitudes to the French Wars, the book makes
an unambiguous and forceful statement about the centrality of
religion to any proper understanding of British public life between
the Restoration and the Reform Bill.
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