The Church and the Slums
Title | The Church and the Slums PDF eBook |
Author | Alastair Wilcox |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2014-05-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1443859974 |
Organised religion played such a central part in Victorian life that it is impossible to understand this era without some reference to it. Yet the question, which worried the Victorians, still remains, how religious was the mass of Victorian society? Recent scholarship has challenged the orthodoxy that the working classes, and the working classes of large urban centres in particular, were irreligious. Yet Liverpool, with its large migratory population, including Roman Catholics from Ireland and Nonconformists from Wales and Scotland, appeared to offer unpromising ground for the Anglican Church to sow its seed. Within the city, Liverpool’s notorious slums seemed to offer the most barren ground of all. What strategies did the Anglican clergy employ to make their churches work at a grassroots level? How could they overcome the problems they faced, which ranged from the hostility of the local community to severe financial constraints? How helpful was the advice dispensed by Church handbooks in dealing with these challenges? More important, is it now possible to estimate the success in gaining not only worshippers, but a wider penumbra of working class adherents to church-based activities? Some of Liverpool’s more aristocratic churches were overwhelmed by the encroaching city slums, and the reaction of at least one clergyman was to retreat within his vicarage, and ‘shut up shop’. However, other clergy set about energetically working the slums. Largely Oxbridge men, with a very different background in social and educational terms to their flock, they made surprising progress. By drawing upon a variety of local sources, including many hitherto unused, this book contends that it is possible to evaluate the success of the Anglican Church in the slums. The Church had successes not only to be judged solely by the number of working class worshippers, but also by the uses the local community made of rites of passage, philanthropic activities and the clubs and societies offered by the Anglican Church in Liverpool. This book is aimed at readers interested in researching family and local history as well as those following wider national trends in religious history.
Salvation in the Slums
Title | Salvation in the Slums PDF eBook |
Author | Norris Magnuson |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2004-11-09 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1592449972 |
Did advocates of the social gospel carry the burden of humanitarian aid during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Were evangelicals content merely to maintain the status quo and avoid ameliorating the plight of the needy? Focusing upon the period from the Civil War to about 1920, this study attempts to portray the sizeable body of Christians whose extensive welfare activities and concern sprang similarly from their passion for evangelism and personal holiness, writes the author. He meticulously traces the urban welfare activities of the Salvation Army, the Volunteers of America, the Christian Missionary and Alliance, multiple rescue missions and homes, and the religious journal 'Christian Herald'.
CHURCH & THE SLUM
Title | CHURCH & THE SLUM PDF eBook |
Author | William Henry B. 1855 Crawford |
Publisher | Wentworth Press |
Pages | 154 |
Release | 2016-08-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781361089279 |
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The Church and the Slum
Title | The Church and the Slum PDF eBook |
Author | William Henry Crawford |
Publisher | |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | Missions |
ISBN |
The Church and the Ghetto
Title | The Church and the Ghetto PDF eBook |
Author | Elise Linder Donahower |
Publisher | |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Church and social problems |
ISBN |
The Church and Slum Clearance
Title | The Church and Slum Clearance PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 67 |
Release | 1937 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
To Be Cared For
Title | To Be Cared For PDF eBook |
Author | Nathaniel Roberts |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2016-04-26 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0520288815 |
To Be Cared For offers a unique view into the conceptual and moral world of slum-bound Dalits (ÒuntouchablesÓ) in the South Indian city of Chennai. Focusing on the decision by many women to embrace locally specific forms of Pentecostal Christianity, Nathaniel Roberts challenges dominant anthropological understandings of religion as a matter of culture and identity, as well as Indian nationalist narratives of Christianity as a ÒforeignÓ ideology that disrupts local communities. Far from being a divisive force,ÊconversionÊintegrates the slum communityÑChristians and Hindus alikeÑby addressing hidden moral fault lines that subtly pitÊresidentsÊagainst one another in a national context that renders Dalits outsiders in their own land."