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Religious Routes to Gladstonian Liberalism

The Church Rate Conflict in England and Wales [Paperback]

by Jacob Ellens

    • Author

      Jacob Ellens

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Pennsylvania State University Press

    • Published

      September 1994

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      Ellens is the first historian to tackle a comprehensive history of the church rates question, and he carries it off in a superlative fashion. The church rates issue was the great Dissenting issue during the period, and Ellens reveals with insight and admirable clarity the intricacies of the changing relationships as the Liberal party's support waxed and waned. This book will be required reading for anyone interested in the history of Victorian Britain.-R. W. Davis, Washington UniversityThis book, covering the period 1832 to 1868, describes how the so-called "church rates" controversy contributed to the rise of a secular liberal state in England and Wales. The church rate was an ancient tax required of all ratepayers, regardless of denomination, for the upkeep of parish churches of the Church of England. This meant that Dissenters and other non-Anglicans paid for the support of the established Church. In the 1830s, however, the Dissenters determined to tolerate the situation no longer. The resulting thirty-six-year struggle became the central church-state issue of the Victorian period.Ellens further argues that church rates played a pivotal role in the shaping of Victorian liberalism.Dissenters desired a society in which church and state would be separate and religious affairs voluntary. When Gladstone decided to champion the Dissenters' "voluntaryist" cause in the 1860s, he established the relationship that would give him the solid basis of electoral strength he needed to carry out the great liberal reforms of his governments after 1868. Elegantly written and argued, this book carefully details the process of disestablishment in England and Wales and uncovers an important and little-recognized dimension to the formation of the Liberal party.

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      • Author

        Jacob Ellens

      • Book Format

        Paperback

      • Publisher

        Pennsylvania State University Press

      • Published

        September 1994

      • Weight

        395g

      • Page Count

        316

      • Dimensions

        135 x 214 x 31 mm

      • ISBN

        9780271028439

      • ISBN-10

        0271028432

      • Eden Code

        1225775

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      • Author/Creator: Jacob Ellens

      • ISBN: 9780271028439

      • Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press

      • Release Date: September 1994

      • Weight: 395g

      • Dimensions: 135 x 214 x 31 mm

      • Eden Code: 1225775


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