RELIGIOUS BELIEF POP CULTURE C

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-19-820769-6
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 414 g

This book challenges the domination of the institutional church as the overriding concern of nineteenth-century religious history by taking as its starting point the nature and expression of religious ideas outside the immediate sphere of the church within the wider arena of popular culture. It considers in detail how these beliefs formed part of a richly textured language of personal, familial, and popular identity in the day-to-day lives of the inhabitants of the London Borough of Southwark between c.1880 and the outbreak of the Second World War. The study highlights the persistence of patterns dismissed as alien to the industrial and urban environment. The interaction of folk idioms with institutional religious language and practice is also considered and urban popular religion is identified as a distinctive system of belief in its own right. This study also pioneers a methodology for exploring belief and interpreting it as a popular cultural phenomenon. A wide range of source materials are drawn on including oral history. Centrality is given to understanding the ways in which individuals expressed and communicated their religious ideas.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen Anglikanische und episkopale Kirchen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Religious Belief and Popular Culture

- The Metropolitan Borough of Southwark

- Urban Folk Religion

- Occasional and Conditional Conformity

- The Ideal of the True Believer

- Religion by Deputy: the Church and the Community

- Patterns of Change

- Appendix: The Oral Project