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Welsh Academic Press The Religious History of Wales: Religious Life and Practice in Wales from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day
An essential reference guide, this volume draws together an impressive collection of academics and religious practitioners to map out for the first time the religious multiplicity and diversity of Wales. For the first fifteen hundred years or so of its existence, the Christian Church in Wales was a unified entity. The Welsh Church, initially Celtic, but then Roman Catholic, held a virtual monopoly over religious life and belief in the country. The sixteenth century Reformation ended the notion of a monolithic Christendom; the proliferation of Protestant sects guaranteed that competition and variety would be the norm. By charting the gradual proliferation of religious communities in Wales from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries, this volume seeks to dispel many of the myths of a monochrome Christian, Protestant or even Nonconformist Wales. Each chapter also uniquely examines the persistence of faith, often in surprising places, in post-Christian Wales.
£24.99
University of Wales Press Correspondence of Iolo Morganwg: v. 1-3
Offers insights into the career and works of Iolo Morganwg, who was one of the most creative and influential figures in the history of modern Wales. This volume contains letters, which reveal the extent of his interests and the diverse network of friends, acquaintances and enemies who brought both blessings and curses into his life.
£179.99
University of Wales Press The Elect Methodists: Calvinistic Methodism in England and Wales, 1735-1811
The Elect Methodists is the first full-length academic study of Calvinistic Methodism, a movement that emerged in the eighteenth century as an alternative to the better known Wesleyan grouping. While the branch of Methodism led by John Wesley has received significant historical attention, Calvinistic Methodism, especially in England, has not. The book charts the sources of the eighteenth-century Methodist revival in the context of Protestant evangelicalism emerging in continental Europe and colonial North America, and then proceeds to follow the fortunes in both England and Wales of the Calvinistic branch, to the establishing of formal denominations in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
£24.99
