Books in the Studies in Modern British Religious History series

An examination of Puritan iconoclasm, the reasons which led to it, and the forces which sustained it.

The role of bishops in the process of Reformation in the 16th century, studied from their surviving writings and contemporary discussion.The English bishops played a crucial role in the process of Reformation in the sixteenth century, from the first arrival of continental Reformed thought to the virtual extinction of the office in 1559. This work has at its core the bishops' own understanding of the episcopate, drawn from their surviving writings and other contemporary discussions; such a study is key to understanding what became of the English Church of the middle ages and what it was to become under Elizabeth. Carleton examines the interplay between bishop and king, the episcopate in the context of other orders, and the social context of the office; he studies episcopal activity in key areas such as preaching, ordaining, and opposing heresy; and he notes the influence of the models which the bishops themselves set up as ideals, most notably Christ himself as the ideal bishop. The backgrounds of the bishops are set out in the appendix.

A vivid and accessible reappraisal of the frequently uneasy relationship between the Victorian clergyman and his congregation.

One of the most significant works on Anglican and Women's history to be published in recent years. Includes a foreword by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Mysticism in Early Modern England traces how mysticism featured in polemical and religious discourse in seventeenth-century England and explores how it came to be viewed as a source of sectarianism, radicalism, and, most significantly, religious enthusiasm.

A challenging interpretation both of the Holocaust and its wider context, and the Church of England's role during the period.

Essays on the turbulent history of Syon Abbey, focussing on the role played by reading and writing in constructing its identity and experience.

Shows how some of the ideas about the afterlife presented by spiritualism helped to shape popular Christianity in the period.

Christabel Pankhurst, one of the leading champions of women's suffrage in Britain, entered the evangelical world after the first world war as a preacher of the second coming. Larsen shows that the two causes, far from being automatically antagonistic, could be complementary.

A survey and reassessment of the role of the army chaplain in its first 150 years.

The first study to deal exclusively with the cult and the political theology underpinning it, taking the story up to 1859.

New scrutinies of the most important political and religious debates of the post-Reformation period.

The first general study of different attitudes to conformity and the political and cultural significance of the resulting consensus on what came to be regarded as orthodox.

The book combines intellectual, cultural and social history to address a major area of encounter between Christianity and British culture: the world of leisure.

This innovative book reveals how Enlightened writers in England, both lay and clerical, proclaimed public support for Christianity by transforming it into a civil religion, despite the famous claim of Jean-Jacques Rousseau that Christians professed an uncivil faith.

The Primitive Methodist Connexion's mature social character may have been working-class, but this did not reflect its social origins.

A window into the mental and cultural worlds of the Stuart period, capturing the existing religious, social and political tensions on the eve of the English Civil War.

An important contribution to the understanding of twentieth-century Anglicanism and evangelicalism