Religious Identities in Britain, 1660–1832

by William Gibson

After the restoration of the Stuarts in 1660, religion stopped being the engine that drove civil and foreign wars in Britain, and so historians of later centuries have paid it little heed. Here, historians of the church and theology show how their topics speak to wider historical and historiographical problems in 18th-century British history. They focus on how religion shaped or reflected the identities and attitudes of individual Britons, in order to integrate the apparently exclusive narratives of an increasingly secular and modern Britain populated by a polite and commercial people, with that of a decidedly pre-modern ancien regime confessional state. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

344 pages, Hardcover

First published January 31, 2005

About the author

William Gibson is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford Brookes University and Director of the Oxford Center for Methodism and Church History, Oxford, England.

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