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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
January 2010
Print publication year:
1996
Online ISBN:
9780511555244

Book description

The main theme of this book is religion and identity - not only national identity, but also regional and local identities. David Hempton penetrates to the heart of vigorous religious and political cultures, both elite and popular, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He brings to life a diverse and variegated spectrum of religious communities in all of the British Isles. With so much new British history really an extended version of old English history, Hempton has devoted more attention to the Celtic fringes, especially Ireland. It is an exercise in comparative history, but he also shows how richly coloured is the religious history of these islands. He demonstrates that even in their cultural distinctiveness, the various religious traditions have had more in common than is sometimes imagined. The book arises from the 1993 Cadbury Lectures at the University of Birmingham.

Reviews

‘A work of immense scholarship and stunning insights …’.

Marianne Elliott Source: The Times Higher Education Supplement

‘… nobody who is interested in the making of the modern Church of England should miss it’.

Arnold Hunt Source: Church Times

‘… written in a crisp, incisive prose, and reflects a thorough knowledge of all relevant literature, combined with a judicious assessment of the issues’.

Hugh McLeod Source: Reviews in Religion and Philosophy

‘… brings balance and wisdom to a variety of controversial areas … I commend his book enthusiastically in the highest terms’.

Linda Colley

‘… we find information, illumination and wisdom, often overturning popular received opinion.’

Source: Themelois Volume 23:1

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