The religious beliefs and practices of the peoples of Britain have
played a central role in the island's culture, history and destiny,
and have done so from the earliest times to the present. Different
gods, rituals and churches have struggled for pre-eminence. They
have been changed and shifted by conquests, wars, missions,
leaders, rulers, ideas, immigrants, tolerance and bigotry.
This book is the first one-volume history of religious belief
and practice in England, Wales and Scotland. It covers the period
from Roman times to the present. Its focus is on the worship and
the beliefs of the British peoples, the questions which exercised
them, and the degree to which belief and practice were changed by
institutional reforms and upheavals in church or state.
Christianity occupies the greater part of the book, but
considerable space is devoted to pre-Christian and non- Christian
beliefs, in particular Judaism and Islam.
The history is divided into four parts. Part I covers Roman
Britain, the conversion of Britain and the middle ages. Part II
describes the Reformation and its effects in the sixteenth century,
radicalism, dissent and war in the seventeenth century, and the
influence of evangelicalism and rationality in the eighteenth. Part
III discusses the impact of industrialization, the mission to the
Empire, and the revival of Roman Catholicism. Part IV is devoted to
the twentieth century - to the plurality of religious experience,
the loss of belief and the forms in which it has been regained, and
to the possible nature of religious practice in the future. What
emerges from the volume as a whole is the diversity of religious
experience in the past and the greatvariety of approaches that can
be adopted to understand that diversity.
The book concludes with a chronology, an annotated guide to
further reading by subject, and a comprehensive index.
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