Suscribing to Faith? The Anglican Parish Magazine 1859-1929

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-14

3. Inventing the Parish Magazine

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   Pages 15-25

4. Erskine Clarke and Parish Magazine

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   Pages 26-37

5. ‘Cheap as well as Good’: The Economics of Publishing

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   Pages 38-57

6. Editors, Writers and Church Parties, 1871–1918

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   Pages 58-70

7. Manly Men and Chivalrous Heroes

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   Pages 71-91

8. ‘Scribbling Women’: Female Authorship of Inset Fiction

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   Pages 92-113

9. Parish Magazine Readers

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   Pages 114-135

10. Stormy Waters: ‘How Can the Waves the Bark O’erwhelm, With Christ the Pilot at the Helm?’

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    Pages 136-156

11. The Challenges of Modernity: Scientific Advances and the Great War

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    Pages 157-177

12. Anglican Parish Magazines 1919–1929 and Beyond

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    Pages 178-194

13. Conclusion

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    Pages 195-199

14. Back Matter

    Pages 200-278

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This book reveals the huge sales and propagandist potential of Anglican parish magazines, while demonstrating the Anglican Church's misunderstanding of the real issues at its heart, and its collective collapse of confidence as it contemplated social change.

• Anglican Church
• Anglican clergy
• Anglicanism
• Anglican faith
• church magazines
• Erskine Clarke
• Great War
• insets
• magazine circulation
• mass-market journalism
• mass-market publishing
• nineteenth-century religion
• parish magazines
• parish
• parish histories
• secularisation
• Victorian magazines
• Victorian religion
• social change

“In this attractive and persuasive volume, Jane Platt seeks to redress the balance and to reclaim this literature as worthy of scholarly attention. … These voices from Anglicanism in the parishes deserve to be heard, and this volume is to be applauded for bringing such a rich archival source back on to the scholarly agenda.” (Andrew Atherstone, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 68 (1), January, 2017)

• Independent Scholar, UK

  Jane Platt

Jane Platt is an independent scholar specialising in church history. From 2011-2014 she was Honorary Researcher in History at Lancaster University, UK. She is the editor of The Diocese of Carlisle, 1814–1855 (2015).

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