Catholic Devotion in Victorian England - Couverture rigide

Heimann, Mary

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 019820597X ISBN 13 : 9780198205975

Editeur : Clarendon Press, 1995

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

This book has a valuable message: devotional practice is not to be dismissed as merely a manifestation of social conformity; but neither is it a private matter.

A sympathetic, objective and eminently readable piece of scholarship...The author includes a careful and accurate account of the development of the catechism of the nineteenth century...the value of the book is enhanced by the appendices and the detailed research information on popular devotion which gives the lie to the view that London was (and is) a typical example of English Catholicism. (The Literary Review)

A fascinating historical monograph (The Times)

It is an important book, which tantalises by opening doors and giving us a glimpse of others' religious experience, and poses important questions to English Catholic readers about what makes for an integrated worshipping community. It is strictly a historical monograph, however, bringing to light a wealth of local evidence, woven wiht considerable skill into a revealing whole. But it also blows wide open many of the inherited historical truisms about the nineteenth century...It opens doors on a world fading from memory and challenges others to further study of a vital area of Catholic life. It should also play a part in our contemporary reflections on the nature of the Church as community. (The Tablet)

At is a scholarly and sympathetic study, which also serves as a welcome reminder of the priority of prayer and worship over all those committees and commissions which have so preoccupied the ecclesiastical mind since vatican II. (Catholic Herald)

I would commend Mary Heimann's book without hesitation to anyone who wants to gain insight into what it was life to be a practising Catholic in England between 1850 and 1914. At once readable and scholarly, it vividly evokes the period which shaped the Church with which all of us who grew up before Vatican II were familiar ... What is remarkable is that ... she has been able to get inside a community of faith which is not her own and throw new light on its development. (The Ampleforth Journal)

This important assessment of Catholic devotion in Victorian England has major significance for the understanding of the life and development of the English Catholic community, it will also have value as a point of reference for historians of Anglo-Catholicism, she has written a monograph, marked not only by originality and lucidity, but by a remarkable degree of empathy with her subject.

an important book, which tantalises by opening doors and giving us a glimpse of others' religious experience, and poses important questions to English Catholic readers about what makes for an integrated worshipping community ... It is strictly a historical monograph, however, bringing to light a wealth of local evidence, woven with considerable skill into a revealing whole. But it also blows wide open many of the inherited historical truisms about the nineteenth century. (Judith Champ, The Tablet)

Thoroughly researched and coherently written, this book will become a crucial marker in English Catholic historiography. (Eileen L. Groth, Florida State University, History, Fall 1996)

a well-researched, readable, and informative work ... this is a valuable study that provides a good balance to the "great man" school of English Catholic studies, which focuses on Newman ... This important work makes the private realm of individual piety accessible as it shows a fruitful path to be explored by historians of English religion. (Carol Marie Engelhardt, Indiana University, Victorian Studies, Summer 1996)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Clarendon Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 019820597X
• ISBN 13: 9780198205975
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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