Religious Belief and Popular Culture in Southwark C. 1880-1939

by S.C. Williams and S C Williams

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198207697
• ISBN13: 9780198207696
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 224 Pages