TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bebbington,D.W.
AU  - Larsen,Timothy
TI  - Modern Christianity and cultural aspirations
SN  - 0826462626
PY  - 2003///
CY  - London
PB  - Sheffield Academic Press
KW  - Christianity and culture
KW  - Dissenters, Religious
KW  - Christian sociology
N1  - "The essays collected in this volume were originally delivered as papers during a conference held at Westminster College, Cambridge, in July 2001" - Pref; Includes bibliographical references and index; A dissenting historian's formation; Clyde Binfield --; Professor Clyde Binfield: a critical appreciation; Reg Ward --; 'Thews and sinews': nonconformity and sport; Hugh McLeod --; Nonconformity and the pottery industry; John Briggs --; 'An important work': building a Victorian chapel; John Handby Thompson --; Newman, Pugin and the architecture of the English oratory; Sheridan Gilley --; The cultural aspirations of the Welsh clergy; Frances Knight --; Honorary doctorates and the nonconformist ministry in nineteenth-century England; Timothy Larsen --; Cultural aspiration and the dissenting colleges: the first students at Mansfield College, Oxford; Elaine Kaye --; Nonconformists at Cambridge before the First World War; David M. Thompson --; Methodist attitudes to education and youth: Halifax, 1800-2000; John A. Hargreaves --; The dissenting political upsurge of 1833-34; David Bebbington --; Educational aspirations versus social hierarchies: the 1906 education bill; John Wigley --; Abraham Lincoln, religion and self-improvement; Richard Carwardine --; The disruption in London: English Presbyterians and the Scottish Disruption of 1843; David Cornick --; From union to church: autobiographical recollections on congregational ecclesiology in the 1960s; Alan P.F. Sell
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