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05039aam a2200613 i 4500 001 765ABCA8580511E8A8F83C5097128E48 003 SILO 005 20180515010114 008 160621t20162016enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016010854 020 $a 1441115897 (hardback) 020 $a 9781441115898 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)768796648 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d ERASA $d YDX $d IUL $d OCLCA $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d EQO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a JN1129.L32 $b C35 2016 082 00 $a 322/.1094109042 $2 23 084 $a REL033000 $a REL033000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Catterall, Peter, $d 1961- $e author. 245 10 $a Labour and the Free Churches, 1918-1939 : $b radicalism, righteousness and religion / $c Peter Catterall. 264 1 $a London ; $b Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, $c 2016. 300 $a xiv, 322 pages ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-301) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Theological and Political Changes amongst the Free Church Leadership -- The Nonconformist Conscience after 1918 -- Changes in Chapel Society -- The Politics of Pewmanship -- Free Churchmen and Women in the Labour Party -- Labour and the Nonconformist Conscience -- Nonconformity, Labour and Class Consciousness -- The Kingdom, the State and Socialism -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Nonconformist Candidatures in General Elections, 1918-35. 520 2 $a "Did the Labour Party, in Morgan Phillips' famous phrase, owe 'more to Methodism than Marx'? Were the founding fathers of the party nurtured in the chapels of Nonconformity and shaped by their emphases on liberty, conscience and the value of every human being in the eyes of God? How did the Free Churches, traditionally allied to the Liberal Party, react to the growing importance of the Labour Party between the wars? This book addresses these questions at a range of levels: including organisation; rhetoric; policies and ideals; and electoral politics. It is shown that the distinctive religious setting in which Labour emerged indeed helps to explain the differences between it and more Marxist counterparts on the Continent, and that this setting continued to influence Labour approaches towards welfare, nationalisation and industrial relations between the wars. In the process Labour also adopted some of the righteousness of tone of the Free Churches. This setting was, however, changing. Dropping their traditional suspicion of the State, Nonconformists instead increasingly invested it with religious values, helping to turn it through its growing welfare functions into the provider of practical Christianity. This nationalisation of religion continues to shape British attitudes to the welfare state as well as imposing narrowly utilitarian and material tests of relevance upon the churches and other social institutions. The elevation of the State was not, however, intended as an end in itself. What mattered were the social and individual outcomes. Socialism, for those Free Churchmen and women who helped to shape Labour in the early twentieth century, was about improving society as much as systems "-- $c Provided by publisher. 610 20 $a Labour Party (Great Britain) $x History $y 20th century. 610 27 $a Labour Party (Great Britain) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00530175 610 27 $a Labour Party $g GroÃbritannien $2 gnd $0 (DE-588)2124-6 650 0 $a Free churches $z Great Britain $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Christianity and politics $z Great Britain $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Church and state $z Great Britain $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Radicalism $z Great Britain $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Socialism $z Great Britain $x History $y 20th century. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Politics and government $y 1910-1936. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Politics and government $y 1936-1945. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Religion $y 20th century. 650 7 $a HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a RELIGION / History. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Christianity and politics. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00859736 650 7 $a Church and state. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00860509 650 7 $a Free churches. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00933849 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 650 7 $a Radicalism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01087015 650 7 $a Religion. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01093763 650 7 $a Socialism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01123637 651 7 $a Great Britain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 650 7 $a Freikirche $2 gnd $0 (DE-588)4018337-3 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Catterall, Peter, 1961- author. $t Labour and the Free Churches, 1918-1939 $d London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016 $z 9781441101600 $w (DLC) 2016029921 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231019020613.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=765ABCA8580511E8A8F83C5097128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search