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Author: S. C. Williams (Research Fellow, Department of Theology, Research Fellow, Department of Theology, University of Birmingham)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.40cm
, Height: 1.70cm
, Length: 22.40cm
Weight: 0.378kg
ISBN: 9780198207696
ISBN 10: 0198207697
Pages: 218
Publication Date: 27 May 1999
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
The author writes with notable clarity, tackling a complex subject with subtlety, and making judicious and entertaining use of 29 oral interviews with elderly inhabitants of south London ... Urban historians might well find the account of the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark in the second chapter of especial interest ... Subsequent chapters explore many fascinating issues. Urban History This is an important book, especially in its determination to treat popular religion as a phenomenon in its own right ... Its picture of a vital, if eclectic, religious dimension to popular culture from within which the people interacted with the Churches largely on their own terms is a convincing one. Journal of Ecclesiastical History Provides an impressive account of folk religion, carefully locating formal practice within a wider cultural context. There is much valuable detail here on the persistence of magic and fatalism. Twentieth Century British History This book should be read by anyone with an interest in what ordinary people believe. It is relatively short, very readable, yet highly sophisticated in its analyses and its engagement with historiography. Frances Knight, Theology
The author writes with notable clarity, tackling a complex subject with subtlety, and making judicious and entertaining use of 29 oral interviews with elderly inhabitants of south London ... Urban historians might well find the account of the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark in the second chapter of especial interest ... Subsequent chapters explore many fascinating issues. Urban History This is an important book, especially in its determination to treat popular religion as a phenomenon in its own right ... Its picture of a vital, if eclectic, religious dimension to popular culture from within which the people interacted with the Churches largely on their own terms is a convincing one. Journal of Ecclesiastical History Provides an impressive account of folk religion, carefully locating formal practice within a wider cultural context. There is much valuable detail here on the persistence of magic and fatalism. Twentieth Century British History This book should be read by anyone with an interest in what ordinary people believe. It is relatively short, very readable, yet highly sophisticated in its analyses and its engagement with historiography. Frances Knight, Theology
