Pulpits, Politics and Public Order in England, 1760-1832Cambridge University Press, 2004 M05 20 - 344 pages This book explores the relationship between religion and politics in England from the accession of George III to the First Reform Bill, considering the political and social ideas of Catholics, Anglicans, Methodists, Dissenters, deists and atheists. It examines the effect of the French Revolution on Christian political and social theory as well as reactions to the American Revolution, riots and disorder, economic and social education, secularisation, 'Blasphemy and Sedition', the growth of atheism, and the Reform of the Constitution in 1826-32. Major figures such as Burke, Paine, Wollstonecraft, Coleridge, Bentham and Wesley are considered, but popular, everyday arguments are also analysed. The book examines Christian views on political obligation and the right of rebellion, and suggests that religion was used as a means of social control to maintain public order and stability in a rapidly changing society. |
Contents
III | 1 |
IV | 9 |
V | 11 |
VI | 12 |
VII | 21 |
VIII | 32 |
IX | 34 |
X | 36 |
XXXVI | 142 |
XXXVII | 145 |
XXXVIII | 151 |
XXXIX | 160 |
XL | 161 |
XLI | 164 |
XLII | 166 |
XLIII | 172 |
XI | 37 |
XII | 40 |
XIII | 50 |
XIV | 53 |
XV | 60 |
XVI | 61 |
XVII | 63 |
XVIII | 64 |
XIX | 67 |
XX | 73 |
XXI | 83 |
XXII | 84 |
XXIII | 95 |
XXIV | 97 |
XXV | 98 |
XXVI | 109 |
XXVII | 115 |
XXVIII | 118 |
XXIX | 120 |
XXX | 127 |
XXXI | 130 |
XXXII | 132 |
XXXIII | 135 |
XXXIV | 138 |
XXXV | 140 |
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Anglican argued atheist attack attitudes authority Berington Bible Birmingham Bishop Britain British Burke's Cambridge Carlile Cartwright Catholic Emancipation Charge Delivered Christian Church of England civil clergy clerical Coleridge concept considered constitutional context debate Diocese discussion divine doctrine duty Edmund Burke Eighteenth Century English Enlightenment episcopal established church Evangelicals faith French Revolution History Hone Hone's Honourable Horne Horsley House of Lords human infidel insisted intellectual irreligion issues Jacobinism John Joseph Berington Joseph Priestley king Letter Liberty London magistrates ment Methodist moral nature obedience Oxford Paley Paley's Parliament passions philosophical political and social political obligation political theory political thought poor principles Protestant Dissenters radical Reflections reform religion religious arguments restraint Richard Carlile Richard Price Robert role Samuel scriptures secular secularisation Sermon Preached social control social theory society Speech spiritual stressed theology traditional Unitarians utilitarian views Wesley Whig Wilberforce William William Paley