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Religion has been a defining characteristic in Welsh national identity from the beginning. This book demonstrates how religion and faith have informed Welsh national identity from the seventeenth century to the present, touching upon the Puritan period, the Older Dissent of the eighteenth century, nineteenth-century Nonconformity and the impact of secularism during the twentieth century. It asks whether religion has been part of the essence of Welshness, and whether that is still the case within the multicultural Wales of the twenty-first century.

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A biography of Pennar Davies, the poet, novelist, critic, historian and theologian who played a major role in the literary, cultural and religious life of Wales in the second half of the twentieth century. Black-and-white photographs.

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This is the first full-length history of 20th-century Christianity in Wales. Beginning with a description of religion and its place in society in 1914, it assesses the effect which the Great War made on people's spiritual convictions and on religious opinion and practise. It proceeds to analyse the state of the disestablished church in Wales, an increasingly confident Catholicism and the growing inter-war crisis of Nonconformity. Liberal Theology and the Social Gospel, the fundamentalist impulse and the churches response to economic dislocation and political change are discussed, as is the much less traumatic effect of the Second World War.

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A highly readable collection of seven essays portraying seven influentially significant figures in the fields of religion and society in Wales during the 20th century, namely D. Cynddelw Williams, Timothe Rees, Lewis Valentine, J. D. Daniel, Ivor Oswy Davies, Pennar Davies and R. Tudur Jones. 8 black-and-white photographs.

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