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Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Churchmanship and Labour
Author: The Labour Church
Author: Jacqueline TurnerPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1786734028
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Labour Church was an organisation fundamental to the British socialist movement during the formative years of the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and Labour Party between 1891 and 1914. It was founded by the Unitarian Minister John Trevor in Manchester in 1891 and grew rapidly thereafter. Its political credentials were on display at the inaugural conference of the ILP in 1893, and the Labour Church proved a formative influence on many pioneers of British socialism. This book provides an analysis of the Labour Church, its religious doctrine, its socio-political function and its role in the cultural development of the early socialist arm of the labour movement. It includes a detailed examination of the Victorian morality and spirituality upon which the life of the Labour Church was built. Jacqui Turner challenges previously held assumptions that the Labour Church was irreligious and merely a political tool. She provides a new cultural picture of a diverse and inclusive organisation, committed to individualism and an individual relationship with God. As such, this book brings together two major controversies of late-Victorian Britain: the emergence of independent working-class politics and the decline of traditional religion in a work which will be essential reading for all those interested in the history of the labour movement.
The Labour Church
Author: Neil JohnsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315304570
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
This book aims to unpack the core message of the Labour Church and question the accepted views of the movement by pursuing an alternative way of analysing its history, significance and meaning. The religious influences on late-nineteenth/early-twentieth-century British Socialism are examined and placed within a wider context, highlighting a continuing theological imperative for the British Labour movement. The book argues that the most distinctive feature of the Labour Church was Theological Socialism. For its founder, John Trevor, Theological Socialism was the literal Religion of Socialism, a post-Christian prophecy announcing the dawn of a new utopian era explained in terms of the Kingdom of God on earth; for members of the Labour Church, who are referred to as Theological Socialists, Theological Socialism was an inclusive message about God working through the Labour movement. Challenging the historiography and reappraising the political significance of the Labour Church, this book will be of interest to students and scholars researching the intersection between religion and politics, as well as radical left history and politics more generally.
Labour and the Free Churches, 1918-1939
Author: Peter CatterallPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441101608
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
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.
The Official Year-book of the National Assembly of the Church of England ...
Author: Church of England. National AssemblyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
The Church-Worker: A Magazine for Sunday School Teachers and Church-Workers generally Vol. II-1883
Author: VariousThe Position of the Laity in the Church
Author: Charles Dallas MarstonPublisher:
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Category : Church
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The Cumulative Book Index
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1276
Book Description
Author and subject index to a selected list of periodicals not included in the Readers' guide, and to composite books.
The Monthly Cumulative Book Index
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1344
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