Birth, Death, and Religious Faith in an English Dissenting Community: A Microhistory of Nailsworth and Hinterland, 1695–1837 - Couverture rigide

Urdank, Albion M.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1498523528 ISBN 13 : 9781498523523

Editeur : Lexington Books, 2015

Synopsis

This study lies at the intersection of three principal areas of social history: demography, religion, and quantitative methods. It is a microanalysis of an English population at the level of the Anglican parish, during the era of the evangelical revival, which includes, unusually, Protestant dissenters from the Established church, in this case Particular Baptists, who were moderate Calvinists. It goes a step beyond previous studies by giving Anglicans and Dissenters co-equal status in a comparative demographic analysis and by demonstrating how religious values informed procreative activity. It does so through a combination of advanced statistical methodologies and an innovative treatment of data collection forms as readable texts. The study concludes that the likelihood of another birth increased following a religious conversion experience, especially among both Anglican and Baptist wives following marriage. Mortality too had a less constraining effect on procreative activity which, in conformity with the English experience, was driven largely by fertility.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Albion M. Urdank is associate professor of modern British and European history at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lexington Books
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1498523528
• ISBN 13: 9781498523523
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 150
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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