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Subscribing to Faith? The Anglican Parish Magazine 1859–1929

  • Jane Platt
Book

Part of the Histories of the Sacred and Secular 1700–2000 book series (HISASE)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction
    Jane Platt
    Pages 1-14
  3. Inventing the Parish Magazine
    Jane Platt
    Pages 15-25
  4. Erskine Clarke and Parish Magazine
    Jane Platt
    Pages 26-37
  5. ‘Cheap as well as Good’: The Economics of Publishing
    Jane Platt
    Pages 38-57
  6. Editors, Writers and Church Parties, 1871–1918
    Jane Platt
    Pages 58-70
  7. Manly Men and Chivalrous Heroes
    Jane Platt
    Pages 71-91
  8. ‘Scribbling Women’: Female Authorship of Inset Fiction
    Jane Platt
    Pages 92-113
  9. Parish Magazine Readers
    Jane Platt
    Pages 114-135
  10. Stormy Waters: ‘How Can the Waves the Bark O’erwhelm, With Christ the Pilot at the Helm?’
    Jane Platt
    Pages 136-156
  11. The Challenges of Modernity: Scientific Advances and the Great War
    Jane Platt
    Pages 157-177
  12. Anglican Parish Magazines 1919–1929 and Beyond
    Jane Platt
    Pages 178-194
  13. Conclusion
    Jane Platt
    Pages 195-199
  14. Back Matter
    Pages 200-278
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About this book

Introduction

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.

Keywords

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

Authors and affiliations

  • Jane Platt
    • 1
  1. 1.Independent ScholarUK

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