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Author:

Sirota, Brent S., 1976- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2013047370

Title:

The Christian monitors : the Church of England and the age of benevolence, 1680-1730 / Brent S. Sirota.

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xiii, 360 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Church of England--History--17th century.
Church of England--History--18th century.
Church of England.
Anglican Communion--England--History--17th century.
England--Church history--17th century.
Anglican Communion--England--History--18th century.
England--Church history--18th century.
Anglican Communion.
England.
1600 - 1799
Church history.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

This book examines the moral and religious revival led by the Church of England before and after the Glorious Revolution, and shows how that revival laid the groundwork for a burgeoning civil society in Britain. After outlining the Church of England's key role in the increase of voluntary, charitable and religious societies, Brent Sirota examines how these groups drove the modernisation of Britain through such activities as settling immigrants throughout the empire, founding charity schools, distributing devotional literature, and evangelising and educating merchants, seamen and slaves throughout the British empire - all leading to what has been termed the "age of benevolence".

Series:

The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history

ISBN:

0300167105
9780300167108

OCLC:

(OCoLC)844731554

LCCN:

2013018588

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)