This is the first full study of English Catholic spirituality in the modern period. Mary Heimann reassesses Roman Catholic piety as practised in Victorian England, stressing the importance of devotion in shaping the characteristics of the Catholic community. Prayers, devotions, catechisms, confraternities, and missionary work enabled traditional English Catholicism not only to survive but to emerge as the most resilient Christian community in twentieth-century England. Dr Heimann's scholarly and original study offers a controversial analysis of the influence of long-established recusant devotions and attitudes in the new context of the re-establishment of Roman Catholicism in England from the mid-nineteenth century. Challenging widely held assumptions that Irish influences, government legislation, or directives from Rome can account for English developments in this period, this book offers important new insights into religion and culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
| ISBN: | 9780198205975 |
| Publication date: | 14th September 1995 |
| Author: | Mary Lecturer in Modern History, Lecturer in Modern History, University of Strathclyde Heimann |
| Publisher: | Clarendon Press an imprint of Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 264 pages |
| Series: | Oxford Historical Monographs |
| Genres: |
Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church Social and cultural history |
This is the first full study of English Catholic spirituality in the modern period. Mary Heimann reassesses Roman Catholic piety as practised in Victorian England, stressing the importance of devotion in shaping the characteristics of the Catholic community. Prayers, devotions, catechisms, confraternities, and missionary work enabled traditional English Catholicism not only to survive but to emerge as the most resilient Christian community in twentieth-century England. Dr Heimann's scholarly and original study offers a controversial analysis of the influence of long-established recusant devotions and attitudes in the new context of the re-establishment of Roman Catholicism in England from the mid-nineteenth century. Challenging widely held assumptions that Irish influences, government legislation, or directives from Rome can account for English developments in this period, this book offers important new insights into religion and culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Catholic Devotion in Victorian England features in the following genres: Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church, Social and cultural history
Catholic Devotion in Victorian England is available in Hardback
Catholic Devotion in Victorian England was written by Mary Lecturer in Modern History, Lecturer in Modern History, University of Strathclyde Heimann and published by Clarendon Press an imprint of Oxford University Press
Catholic Devotion in Victorian England has 264 pages
Yes it is part of Oxford Historical Monographs series
£142.50