Religious Vitality in Victorian London

This innovative book challenges many of the widely held assumptions about the place of religion in Victorian society and in London, the world's first great industrial and commercial metropolis.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: The Context: London, a World City


• 2: Religion in the World City


• 3: The Church of England in Victorian London, c. 1837-1856


• 4: The Church of England in Victorian London, 1857-1901


• 5: Nonconformity in Victorian London


• 6: Migrant Religious Groups: Roman Catholics and Judaism


• 7: New Religious Groups


• 8: Women and Religion in Victorian London


• 9: Religion, Philanthropy, and Social Action


• 10: Religion and Education in Victorian London: Elementary Education


• 11: Religion and Education in Victorian London: Secondary, Adult, and Higher Education


• Conclusion

About the author

W.M.Jacob is a Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London. He previously taught church history, focusing on the social history of religion, at Salisbury and Wells Theological College, Lincoln Theological College, and the University of Wales Lampeter. His books include Laypeople and Religion in the Early-Eighteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 1996), The Clerical Profession in the Long-Eighteenth Century (OUP, 2007), and The Church in Wales from the Reformation to Disestablishment (University of Wales Press, 2007).

Summary

This innovative book challenges many of the widely held assumptions about the place of religion in Victorian society and in London, the world's first great industrial and commercial metropolis.

Additional text

Religious Vitality in Victorian London lays significant groundwork for renewed investigation into the many crosscurrents of religious thought informing all spheres of life in what Jacob convincingly portrays as an "extraordinary age of faith and philanthropy"

Product details

• Authors: Oxford Editor, Visiting Research Fellow W M (King''s Colle Jacob, W. M. Jacob, W. M. (Visiting Research Fellow Jacob, W.M. Jacob, W.m. (Visiting Research Fellow Jacob, Jacob W. M.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9780192897404
• ISBN: 978-0-19-289740-4
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; London, Greater London, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, RELIGION / History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Western, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Religion, British & Irish history, Social and cultural history