Charity and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Volume I: The Spur of Religion
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-367-52094-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 523 g

The volume explores the role religion had in charity and philanthropy in the long nineteenth-century. Although charity is, arguably, rooted in the Old Testament and the New Testament and philanthropy, as a concept, emerges in the seventeenth century, it was only in the nineteenth century that these concepts assumed their modern form. The materials in this volume provide essential context for understanding the role of religion in nineteenth-century charity and philanthropy. Topics be covered include the Church of England, Protestant dissenting religions, the Christian Social Union, the Catholic Church in Ireland, Judaism and the Salvation Army.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morrison, Kevin A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Volume 1: Spur of Religion

List of Illustrations

General Introduction

Volume 1 Introduction: Spur of Religion

Part 1. What Is Charity?

1. Homily: A Sermon of Christian Love and Charity

2. Josiah Thomas, Real Charity and Popular Charity: A Discourse Delivered in Charter-House Chapel, London

3. Joseph Hughes, The Better Gift: A Tract Intended to Accompany a Charitable Donation

4. Mary Kay, Ode to Charity

5. Sydney Smith, A Sermon on Those Rules of Christian Charity by Which Our Opinions of Other Sects Should be Formed.

6. Peter Augustine Baines, Faith, Hope, and Charity: The Substance of a Sermon Preached at the Dedication of the Catholic Chapel at Bradford.

7. Amelia Bewsher, Faith, Hope, and Charity

8. John Angell James, Christian Charity Explained; or The Influence of Religion on the Temper Stated

9. John Bird Sumner, Christian Charity, Its Obligations and Objects With Reference to the Present State of Society in a Series of Sermons

10. Charles Kingsley, The Charity of God

Part 2: The Amelioration of Suffering

11. J. R. Seeley, The Law of Philanthropy

12. H. P. Liddon, Pauperism and the Love of God

13. T. W. Aveling, Christian Philanthropy

14. Andrew Mearns, et. al., The Bitter Cry of Outcast London: An Inquiry Into the Condition of the Abject Poor

15. Samuel Barnett, Consciousness of Others’ Needs

16. Anon., The Social Christ

17. Fred A. McKenzie, The Salvation Army as Social Force

18. Mary Martha Sherwood, The Little Sunday School Child’s Reward

19. John Hobart Caunter, A Sermon Preached at St Peter’s, Cornhill

20. The Importance of Sobriety: Illustrated by the Evils of Intemperance

21. A Peep Into a Gin Shop!: Containing Several Choice Anecdotes and Useful Hints, Very Interesting to All Who Love a Dram!

22. Crystal Spring Band of Hope Songs

23. Frederick Sessions, The Drink Question in India

24. John W. Kirton, The Doings of Alcohol

25. King Drink

26. W. R. Baker, The Curse of Britain: An Essay on the Evils, Causes and Cure of Intemperance

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kevin A. Morrison is Distinguished Professor of British Literature in the School of Foreign Languages at Henan University. He is the author of Victorian Liberalism and Material Culture: Synergies of Thought and Place (2018), A Micro-History of Victorian Liberal Parenting: John Morley’s "Discreet Indifference" (2018), and Study-Abroad Pedagogy, Dark Tourism, and Historical Reenactment: In the Footsteps of Jack the Ripper and His Victims (2019). He has edited a number of collections including, most recently, Walter Besant: The Business of the Literature and the Pleasures of Reform (2019).