Between Pulpit and Pew - Folk Religion in a North Yorkshire Fishing Village

Informationen zum Autor David Clark had a career as an English and history teacher. A battlefield historian, he has written several books on the subject of British battlefields including A Brief Guide to British Battlefields (Robinson 2015), covering over a hundred British battlefield sites.He has lived with his wife Alice in Lincolnshire since his retirement and was born and brought up across the River Humber, in Hull. His mother's family were Lincolnshire people, and his grandfather built the extension to Trinity Methodist Church in Barton-upon-Humber in 1905.His first Lincolnshire book was Second World War Airfields in Lincolnshire (Bretwalda Books 2015).David is a keen gardener and exhibits at agricultural shows.This book provides an insight into the nature of folk religion in a small fishing village in North Yorkshire. Using a combination of sociological and historical methods, David Clark first explores the impact of an official religion - Methodism - on the village in the early nineteenth century, and its subsequent place in village life. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: some preliminaries concerning folk religion; 2. The village; 3. Studying folk religion; 4. Institutional religion; 5. Chapel life and chapel folk; 6. The annual cycle; 7. Birth and death; 8. Occupational beliefs; 9. Conclusions; Notes; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: David Clark
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.12.2009
• EAN: 9780521125017
• ISBN: 978-0-521-12501-7
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Cultural Studies, RELIGION / General, Yorkshire, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Religion: general, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)