ABSTRACT
This four-volume historical resource provides new opportunities for investigating the relationship between religion, literature and society in Britain and its imperial territories by making accessible a diverse selection of harder-to-find primary sources. These include religious fiction, poetry, essays, memoirs, sermons, travel writing, religious ephemera, unpublished notebooks and pamphlet literature. Spanning the long nineteenth century (c.1789–1914), the resource departs from older models of ‘the Victorian crisis of faith’ in order to open up new ways of conceptualising religion. This second volume is called ‘Mission and Reform’ and it considers the social and political importance of religious faith and practice as expressed through foreign and domestic mission and philanthropic and political movements at home and abroad.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|104 pages
The Foreign Mission Movement
section 1.1|12 pages
Gaining Support
chapter 1|9 pages
Dialogue between a Minister and a Parishioner concerning the Church Missionary Society
section 1.2|14 pages
Children
chapter 2|5 pages
E. M. I., ‘Lessons from Heathen Lands;
chapter 3|5 pages
John Campbell, Worlds Displayed for the Benefit of Young People by a Familiar History of Some of their Inhabitants [1802]
section 1.3|18 pages
Women and Authority in the Mission Field
chapter 4|4 pages
Memoirs of Female Labourers in the Missionary Cause
chapter 5|5 pages
Female Missionary Intelligencer [1853]
chapter 6|5 pages
Pandita Ramabai, ‘Report’
section 1.4|21 pages
Masculinity and Leadership
chapter 7|9 pages
Soldiership and Christianity: Being a Review of the Memoirs of the Late Hedley Vicars
chapter 9|6 pages
A. F. Childe, Good out of Evil; or, the History of Adjai the African Slave-Boy
section 1.5|15 pages
Ethnography and Anthropology
chapter 10|5 pages
Robert Moffat, Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa
chapter 11|6 pages
George Taplin [and James Ngunaitponi], The Narrinyeri
section 1.6|20 pages
Biblical History, Geography and Travel Writing
chapter 12|4 pages
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, ‘Palestine’ [1826]
chapter 14|9 pages
Constance Maynard, Contributions to Hermes (Westfield College Newsletter), 1898–1900
part 2|74 pages
Home Missions
section 2.1|8 pages
Unitarian Home Missionary Board
chapter 15|5 pages
[John Relly Beard], ‘Unitarian Home Missionary Board’
section 2.2|12 pages
University Settlements
chapter 16|3 pages
Frederick Rogers, The New Movement at the Universities and What May Come of it, by a Whitechapel Man
chapter 17|5 pages
Lady Margaret Hall Newsletter
section 2.3|20 pages
Revivalism
chapter 18|7 pages
Phoebe Palmer, Four Years in the Old World: Comprising the Travels, Incidents, and Evangelical Labors of Dr and Mrs Palmer in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales
chapter 19|5 pages
Maurice Davies, ‘The “Twelve Days’ Mission”’
chapter 20|4 pages
Society of St John the Evangelist (the Holy Cross), The Book of the Mission
section 2.4|16 pages
The Salvation Army
chapter 21|2 pages
William Booth, Orders and Regulations for Field Officers
chapter 22|10 pages
The War Cry, 1895–1896
section 2.5|16 pages
The Mission to the Jews
chapter 23|4 pages
London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews, ‘Abstract of the 27th Report’
chapter 24|2 pages
‘A Visit to the Chapel of the Hebrew Christian Brethren in London by a Converted Israelite’
chapter 25|6 pages
Osborn W. Trenery Heighway, Leila Ada: The Jewish Convert, an Authentic Memoir [1852]
part 3|58 pages
Reforming Private Life
section 3.1|13 pages
Temperance
chapter 26|4 pages
William Gaskell, ‘Dread Memories!’, ‘A Mother’s Death-Song for her Child’, ‘Parting Words’ and ‘Heaven to Thee!’
chapter 27|5 pages
The Importance of Sobriety Illustrated by the Evils of Intemperance
section 3.2|12 pages
Sabbatarianism
chapter 29|4 pages
Edward Capern, ‘The Rural Postman’
section 3.3|14 pages
Fidelity in the Upper Classes
chapter 30|4 pages
‘Letter to a Friend in the Higher Circles of Society’
chapter 31|6 pages
Arthur Selous, The Young Governess: A Tale for Girls
section 3.4|16 pages
Education
chapter 32|5 pages
Dinah Craik, Bread upon the Waters [1852]
chapter 33|3 pages
G. F. B., Charlie Brame: or What Came of Loitering
chapter 34|4 pages
Mary B. G. Slade, ‘The Missionary Meeting’
part 4|101 pages
Social and Political Reform
section 4.1|17 pages
Abolitionism
chapter 35|7 pages
[Susanna Watts and Elizabeth Heyrick], ‘Remarks on the Descent of the Africans from Ham’
chapter 36|6 pages
Isaac Nelson, Slavery Supported by the American Churches and Countenanced by Recent Proceedings in the Free Church of Scotland
section 4.2|18 pages
Prison Reform
chapter 37|3 pages
Mary Carpenter, ‘On Reformatory Schools and their Present Position’
chapter 38|6 pages
Walter Lowe Clay, The Prison Chaplain: A Memoir of the Reverend John Clay B.D. Late Chaplain of the Preston Gaol
chapter 39|5 pages
[Fred W. Robinson], Female Life in Prison: By a Prison Matron
section 4.3|14 pages
Philanthropic Organisations
chapter 40|4 pages
Clara Collet, ‘George Gissing’s Novels’
chapter 41|6 pages
Baroness Burdett Coutts: A Sketch of her Public Life and Work
section 4.4|11 pages
Social Purity
chapter 43|4 pages
J. E. H. [Ellice Hopkins], Is it Natural?
section 4.5|20 pages
Christian Socialism
chapter 44|4 pages
Stewart Headlam, ‘The Service of Humanity’ and ‘The Stage’
chapter 45|6 pages
Eliza and John Trevor, The Labour Church Hymn Book
chapter 46|6 pages
John Clifford, Socialism and the Teaching of Christ
section 4.6|17 pages
Women’s Suffrage