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Dark Satanic Mills

Religion and Irreligion in Birmingham and the Black Country

by Geoff Robson

  • Paperback
  • 320 pages
  • Publisher: Paternoster Press
  • 14.9 x 22.7 x 2 cm

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For historians and enthusiasts of religious studies

Challenges misconceptions about 19th-century worship

You will uncover the truth behind church attendance patterns

This book explores the complex relationship between religion and irreligion in Birmingham's industrial past.

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Was the nineteenth-century working class as irreligious as the 1851 census of religious worship appeared to show? Or were there some industrial areas where large numbers of them actually went to church? Birmingham and the Black Country provide evidence for both religion and irreligion, but was the better church attendance of the Black Country the result of panic reactions to cholera epidemics or intensive evangelism? How did ordinary people respond to the attempts of the churches to recruit them? Did evangelical conversion result from fear of hell? This book sets out to answer these questions on the basis of an analysis of original sources, many of them unpublished, from the years leading up to the 1851 census.

  • Author

    Geoff Robson

  • Book Format

    paperback

  • Publisher

    Paternoster Press

  • Published

    January 2003

  • Weight

    441g

  • Page Count

    320

  • Dimensions

    14.9 x 22.7 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9781842271025

  • ISBN-10

    1842271024

  • Eden Code

    32847

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