Labour and the Free Churches, 1918-1939
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-06726-4 (ISBN)
This setting was, however, changing. Dropping their traditional suspicion of the State, Nonconformists instead increasingly invested it with religious values, helping to turn it through its growing welfare functions into the provider of practical Christianity. This nationalisation of religion continues to shape British attitudes to the welfare state as well as imposing narrowly utilitarian and material tests of relevance upon the churches and other social institutions. The elevation of the State was not, however, intended as an end in itself. What mattered were the social and individual outcomes. Socialism, for those Free Churchmen and women who helped to shape Labour in the early twentieth century, was about improving society as much as systems.
Peter Catterall is Reader in History at the University of Westminster, UK. In addition, he teaches on democracy and public policy for the Hansard Society. He is also chair of the George Lansbury Memorial Trust. He has published widely on 20th-century British history and his most recent work is Labour and the Politics of Alcohol: The Decline of a Cause (2014).
1. Introduction
2. Theological and Political Changes amongst the Free Church Leadership
3. The Nonconformist Conscience
4. Changes in Chapel Society
5. The Politics of Pewmanship
6. Free Churchmen and Women in the Labour Party
7. The Nonconformist Conscience and the Labour Party
8. The Free Churches and Class Consciousness
9. The Kingdom, the State and Socialism
10. Conclusions
Appendices on Nonconformist Candidatures in General Elections 1918-35
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 03.07.2018 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 476 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-06726-1 / 1350067261 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-06726-4 / 9781350067264 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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