Baptists and Britons: Particular Baptist Ministers in England and British Identity in the 1790s
Description:
This study examines the interaction between religious and national affiliations within a Dissenting denomination. Linda Colley and Jonathan Clark argue that religion provided the unifying foundation of national identity. Colley portrays a Protestant British identity defined in opposition to Catholic France. Clark favors an English identity, based upon an Anglican intellectual hegemony, against which only the heterodox could effectively offer criticism. Studying the Baptists helps test those…
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Date:
December 2005
Creator:
Parnell, John Robert