Christianity and Social Service in Modern Britain: The Disinherited Spirit
Frank Prochaska
Abstract
This book examines the importance of Christianity as an inspiration for political and social behaviour in the nineteenth century, and the forces that undermined both religion and charity in the twentieth. The waning of religion and the growth of government responsibility for social provision were closely intertwined. The book shows how the creation of the modern British state undermined religious belief and customs of associational citizenship. Through a study of four areas of social provision – education, visiting, infant welfare, and nursing – it unravels the complex evolving relationship be ... More
Keywords: Christianity, religion, charity, philanthropy, voluntarism, education, visiting, nursing, democracy, citizenship
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2008 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199539796 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2010 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199539796.001.0001 |
