Churches and the Working Classes in Victorian EnglandFirst published in 2006. A listener to sermons, and even a reader of respectable history books, could easily think that during the nineteenth century the habit of attending religious worship was normal among the English working classes. |
Contents
THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND | |
THE NONCONFORMISTS | |
THE CATHOLICS | |
SETTLEMENTS | |
THE SALVATION ARMY | |
LABOUR CHURCHES | |
THE CHURCHES AND SOCIAL REFORM | |
EPILOGUE | |
INDEX | |
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activity Adderley attended believed Birmingham Bishop body British Weekly Catholic chapels Christ Christian Social Union Christian Socialist Church Army Church Congress Report Church of England Churchmen classes clergy clergymen committee Congregational Union Congregational Year Book Congregationalism Congregationalists Convocation Darkest England declared denomination doctrines East London ecclesiastical English evangelical evangelistic F. D. Maurice faith Fund Guild H. O. Barnett Headlam Home Missionary Hugh Price Hughes Hughes Ibid Irish journal Keeble Labour Church Labour Church Union Labour Prophet laity large towns laymen leaders Manchester masses meeting Methodism Methodist middle-class mission movement non-worshippers Nonconformists Nonconformity organization Oxford House parish parochial pastoral pew system poor population poverty priests R. W. Dale religion religious rich Salvation Army Scott Holland secular settlement slums social problems social questions social radicals social reform speakers spiritual Sunday sympathy Toynbee Hall Trevor Wesleyan Conference Minutes William Booth working-class worship wrote Year-Book