Rival Jerusalems: The Geography of Victorian Religion

by K. D. M. Snell , Paul S. Ell

• ISBN13: 9780521771559
• ISBN10: 0521771552
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-11
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of figures	ix
List of tables	xi
Preface and acknowledgements	xv
Introduction	1	(22)
Part 1 Religious geographies: the districts of England and Wales
Paul S. Ell
K. D. M. Snell
The 1851 Census of Religious Worship	23	(31)
The Church of England	54	(39)
Old dissent: the Presbyterians, Independents, Baptists, Quakers and Unitarians	93	(28)
The geographies of new dissent	121	(52)
Roman Catholicism and Irish immigration	173	(12)
Denominational co-existence, reciprocity or exclusion?	185	(16)
Part 2 Religion and locality: parish-level explorations
K. D. M. Snell
A prospect of fifteen counties	201	(31)
From Henry Compton to Horace Mann: stability or relocation in Catholicism and Nonconformity, and the growth of religious pluralism (with A. Crockett)	232	(42)
The Sunday school movement: child labour, denominational control and working-class culture	274	(47)
Free or appropriated sittings: the Anglican Church in perspective	321	(43)
Conformity, dissent and the influence of landownership	364	(31)
Urbanisation and regional secularisation	395	(58)
Technical appendices
A Denominational statistics	423	(2)
B The correction of census data	425	(6)
C The religious measures	431	(7)
D Computer cartographic methods	438	(2)
E Landownership and the Imperial Gazetteer	440	(9)
F An 1861 Census of Religious Worship?	449	(4)
Bibliography	453	(30)
Index	483