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Author Prochaska, F. K.

Title Christianity and social service in modern Britain : the disinherited spirit / Frank Prochaska.

Publication Info. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 216 pages)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Background -- Schooling -- Visiting -- Mothering -- Nursing -- Foreground.
Summary An elegantly written study that charts the relationship between Christianity and social service in Britain since the eighteenth century and presents a challenging new interpretation of the links between Christian decline and democratic traditions. - ;Few subjects bring out so well the differences between ourselves and our ancestors as the history of Christian charity. In an increasingly mobile and materialist world, in which culture has grown more national, indeed global, we no longer relate to the lost world of nineteenth-century parish life. Today, we can hardly imagine a voluntary society t.
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Subject Church charities -- Great Britain.
Church charities.
Great Britain.
Church work with the poor -- Great Britain.
Church work with the poor.
Church and social problems -- Great Britain.
Church and social problems.
Social service -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Social service -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Title Christianity & social service in modern Britain
Other Form: Print version: Prochaska, F.K. Christianity and social service in modern Britain. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006 (DLC) 2005022521
ISBN 9780191537066 (electronic book)
0191537063 (electronic book)
0199287929 (Cloth)
9780199287925

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