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- catalog abstract ""The book stresses contextual and regional understanding of religion. Among the subjects covered for all of England and Wales are the geography of the Church of England, Roman Catholicism, the old and new dissenting denominations, the spatial complementarity of denominations, and their importance for political history. A range of further questions are then analysed in even greater detail, using massive parish datasets of religious, socio-economic and demographic data for 2,443 English and Welsh parishes. Among the issues treated are regional continuities in religion, the growth of religious pluralism, Sunday schools and child labour during industrialisation, free and appropriated church sittings, landownership and religion, and urbanisation and regional 'secularisation'. Regional contrasts between denominations, and between Wales and England, are persistent themes. The long-term importance of the geography of religion is stressed, for it bears on many crucial modern questions of regional cultures and national identities." "This book's advanced methods and findings will have far-reaching influence within the disciplines of history, historical and cultural geography, religious sociology, religious studies, and in the social science community in general."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b11953000.
- catalog contributor b11953001.
- catalog coverage "England Church history 19th century.".
- catalog coverage "Wales Church history 19th century.".
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""The book stresses contextual and regional understanding of religion. Among the subjects covered for all of England and Wales are the geography of the Church of England, Roman Catholicism, the old and new dissenting denominations, the spatial complementarity of denominations, and their importance for political history. A range of further questions are then analysed in even greater detail, using massive parish datasets of religious, socio-economic and demographic data for 2,443 English and Welsh parishes. Among the issues treated are regional continuities in religion, the growth of religious pluralism, Sunday schools and child labour during industrialisation, free and appropriated church sittings, landownership and religion, and urbanisation and regional 'secularisation'.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 453-482) and index.".
- catalog description "Regional contrasts between denominations, and between Wales and England, are persistent themes. The long-term importance of the geography of religion is stressed, for it bears on many crucial modern questions of regional cultures and national identities." "This book's advanced methods and findings will have far-reaching influence within the disciplines of history, historical and cultural geography, religious sociology, religious studies, and in the social science community in general."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 499 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0521771552".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog spatial "England Church history 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog spatial "Wales Church history 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "Wales".
- catalog subject "274.2/081 21".
- catalog subject "BR759 .S54 2000".
- catalog subject "Christian sociology England History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Christian sociology Wales History 19th century.".
- catalog title "Rival Jerusalems : the geography of Victorian religion / K.D.M. Snell and Paul S. Ell.".
- catalog type "Church history. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".