The Development of Pluralism in Modern Britain and France

by Richard J. Bonney (Editor), David J.B. Trim (Editor)

Overview

Europe is increasingly multi-ethnic and multi-faith, as well as multi-cultural. Western democracies now comprise a plurality of fundamental opinions and inherited cultures; it is not clear how (or if!) they can be related to each other without involving either oppression or anarchy. This debate requires historical understanding and a contemporary grasp of the points at issue amongst different cultures.
By virtue of their proximity and frequent historical interaction, Britain and France lend themselves to comparative study. The studies in this volume collectively demonstrate that the affairs of religious minorities in these two countries were not only of concern to themselves and their national established churches. Rather, over a long-term period, they had a sustained impact on many other issues.
All chapters illustrate the problematic shift from a persecutory to a pluralistic mentality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783039105717
Publisher:	Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	07/16/2007
Series:	Studies in the History of Religious and Political Pluralism , #1
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	8.66(w) x 5.91(h) x (d)

About the Author

The Editors: Richard Bonney is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of Leicester and Chairman of the Europe-Islamic World Organization. The Founding Editor of French History, he was formerly President of the Society for the Study of French History and Director of the European State Finance Project, and is a non-stipendiary priest in the Church of England. He has published numerous books on European, political, financial and religious history. His latest book is Jihad: From Qur’an to bin Laden (2004).
D.J.B. Trim is Lecturer in History at Newbold College, and Visiting Research Fellow, School of History, at the University of Reading. He has published numerous papers and edited The Chivalric Ethos and the Development of Military Professionalism (2003) and Cross, Crown and Community: Religion, Government and Culture in Early Modern England 1400-1800 (Peter Lang, 2004).

Table of Contents

Contents: Richard Bonney/D.J.B. Trim: Introduction – Gwynne Lewis: The State, Calvinism, and the Evolution of Political and Religious Pluralism in France, c.1550s-1848 – William Lamont: False Witnesses? The English Civil War and English Ecumenism – Bryan W. Ball: ‘Through Darkness to Light.’ Post-Restoration Sabbatarianism: Survival and Continuity – Robin Briggs: A Moving Target: Jansenists and their Enemies in France – Randolph Vigne: Richard Hill and the Saving of Liberty of Conscience for the Vaudois – Terrie Dopp Aamodt: ‘Out of thee, O England, shall a bright star arise’: Mother Ann Lee and the English Origins of the Shakers – Penny Mahon: Domesticating Discourses: Woman as Writer in the Early Nineteenth-century Peace Society – John Wolffe: British Protestants and Europe, 1820-60: Some Perceptions and Influences – James C. Deming: Martyrs for Modernity: The Three Hundredth Jubilee of the French Reformation and the Catholic-Protestant Debate on the Huguenot Martyrs – Aubrey Newman: The Jewish Presence in Britain and France, 1650-1914 – Rik Torfs: The Present State of Religious Minorities in Europe – Richard Bonney: British and French Muslims: Between Assimilation and Segregation?

Preface

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