Piety and Poverty: Working-Class Religion in Berlin, London and New York, 1870-1914 (Europe Past and Present Series) - Hardcover

McLeod, Hugh

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0841913560 ISBN 13: 9780841913561

Publisher: Lynne Rienner, 1996

Synopsis

Drawing on moving personal accounts—letters, oral histories, and memoirs—as well as original documentary evidence found in parish records, histories, and demographic data, Hugh McLeod explores the role of religion in the everyday life of working-class communities.<br><br> The book reveals how belief and unbelief are related to the experiences of poverty, social class and alienation, to the ways in which people celebrated rites of passage and survived personal crises, to relationships between men and women, and to political organizations. <br><br> McLeod examines the link between secularisation and the growth of cities as centres of working-class life, and chronicles how new forms of religiosity arose alongside secular political movements and remained a force among the poor even as institutional attachments diminished. Another important contribution is the book's discussion of the gendering of religious experience.

About this title

Synopsis:

The late 19th and early 20th centuries were regarded in many western countries as a time of religious crisis. This was generally believed to be most acute in cities and especially among the working class. This book focuses on working class religion in three of the world's greatest cities in this period of crisis. One of the most important matters at issue in the debate is that of the relationship between secularisation and urbanisation.

About the Author:

<strong>Hugh McLeod</strong> is professor of Church History at the University of Birmingham and president of the British branch of CIHEC (International Church History Organization). He is the author of several books in the comparative history of religion, including <em>Class and Religion in the Late Victorian City</em> and <em>Religion and the People of Western Europe 1879–1970</em>.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lynne Rienner
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0841913560
• ISBN 13: 9780841913561
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264