By Geordan Hammond
What half did faith play in overdue eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain? How did the neighborhood state of affairs vary from the nationwide photo? What used to be the function of girls in society and the church? and the way did the rising facilities of commercial job engage with the areas during which they sprung up? those are huge questions, yet they are often obvious in microcosm in a single small sector of the English midlands: the parish of Madeley, Shropshire, within which was once the "birthplace of the commercial revolution," Coalbrookdale. right here, the evangelical Methodist clergyman John Fletcher ministered among 1760 and 1785, between a inhabitants together with Catholics and Quakers in addition humans detached to faith. Then, for almost sixty years after his loss of life, girls, Fletcher's widow and later her protégé, had digital cost of the parish, which grew to become one of many final examples of Methodism ultimate in the Church of britain. via studying this particular locality, those essays interact quite with parts of broader value, together with: Methodism's roots and progress when it comes to the Church of britain, faith and gender in eighteenth-century Britain, and faith and rising business society. the decade has obvious vast progress in stories of John and Mary Fletcher, early Methodism, and its dating to the Church of britain. Religion, Gender, and Industry deals a contribution to this constructing zone of study. The groundbreaking essays during this quantity are written by way of a world staff of students and current the newest study during this box. The contributions during this quantity, initially awarded at a convention in Shropshire in 2009, handle those subject matters from multidisciplinary views, together with background, theology, gender reviews, and undefined. as well as furthering wisdom of Madeley parish and its relation to bigger issues in eighteenth-century Britain, the impression of the Fletchers in nineteenth-century American Methodism is tested.
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