Rival Jerusalems: The Geography of Victorian Religion
Cambridge University Press, 10/26/2000
EAN 9780521771559, ISBN10: 0521771552
Hardcover, 516 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm
Language: English
This pioneering book is based upon very extensive analysis of the famous 1851 Census of Religious Worship and earlier sources such as the 1676 Compton Census. The authors stress contextual and regional understanding of religion. Among the subjects covered for all of England and Wales are the geography of the Church of England, Roman Catholicism, the old and new dissenting denominations, the spatial complementarity of denominations, and their importance for political history. A range of further questions are then analysed, such as regional continuities in religion, the growth of religious pluralism, Sunday schools and child labour during industrialisation, free and appropriated church sittings, landownership and religion, and urbanisation and regional 'secularisation'. This book's advanced methods and findings will have far-reaching influence within the disciplines of history, historical and cultural geography, religious sociology and in the social science community general.
Introduction
Part I. Religious Geographies
The Districts of England and Wales
1. The 1851 Census of Religious Worship
2. The Church of England
3. Old dissent
the Presbyterians, Independents, Baptists, Quakers and Unitarians
4. The geographies of new dissent
5. Roman Catholicism and Irish immigration
6. Denominational co-existence, reciprocity or exclusion?
Part II. Religion and Locality
Parish-Level Explorations
7. The prospect of fifteen counties
8. From Henry Compton to Maurice Mann
stability or relocation in Catholicism and Nonconformity, and the growth of religious pluralism
9. The Sunday school movement
child labour, denominational control and working-class culture
10. Free or appropriated sittings
the Anglican church in perspective
11. Conformity, dissent and the influence of landownership
12. Urbanisation and regional secularisation
Technical Appendices
A. Denominational statistics
B. Correction of registration-district data
C. The religious measures
D. Computer cartographic methods
E. Landownership and the Imperial Gazetteer
F. The 1861 Census of Religious Worship?
Bibliography.