Church, State, and Society: 1760-1850 (British History in Perspective) Book

	Preface
	Introduction	1
1	The Established Church in 1760	4
	The Church's involvement in politics	5
	The development of the clerical profession	10
	The character of the episcopate	16
	Pluralism and non-residence	19
	The Church and the people in 1760	25
	Clerical incomes	28
	A reformed and unreformed Church?	32
	The Church in Wales	36
2	Church and State, 1760-1830	41
	The Church's relations with the State: the American Revolution and the abolition of slavery	41
	The impact of the French Revolution	48
	The Tory Governments and Church patronage, 1801-30	53
	Church Parties: The Hackney Phalanx and the Clapham Sect	58
	The Church, Toleration and Emancipation, 1760-1830	67
3	Religion and Social Change	76
	Methodism and politics: the Halevy thesis	76
	Patterns of religious practice, 1760-1850	83
	The urban Church and industrialisation	89
	The Church's wider social missions	96
4	The Church and the Reforms of the 1830s	106
	The Church and the 1832 Reform Act	106
	The Church and the ecclesiastical reforms of the 1830s	112
	The Church and the Whig reforms of the 1830s	122
	The Whigs and Church patronage, 1830-41	128
	Reform and the Oxford Movement	137
5	Religion and Society Outside the Establishment	144
	Roman Catholicism and 'Papal Aggression'	144
	The new dissent: the development of Methodism	149
	Old dissent: variety and convergence	155
	Religion without Christianity: the Jews	164
6	Religion in Mid-Victorian England	168
	The religious census of 1851	168
	Religion and cultural change	171
	Religion, the family and women	174
	Religion and the working classes by 1851	179
	Notes	183
	A Note on Sources	188
	Bibliography	190
	Index	197