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Hannah More (and philanthropic sociability) [ Religion & Philanthropy / Politics & Society / Religious Belief ]

… religious dimension, thus outlining a new role for women as prime agents of social and moral reformation. People > Religion & Philanthropy Practices > Politics & Society Practices > Religious Belief Keywords Bluestocking Education Evangelicalism Friendship Manners Philanthropy Poverty Reformation Religion Slavery Women Wilberforce Hannah More (1745-1833), who was one of the first women writers to become famous in … of the heart and to religious sociability. The correspondence with Wilberforce revolves around schools, charity or religion: their friendship thus followed the same pattern as their lives, i.e. an ever-growing involvement in …

Debating societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]

… for public debate among the lower and middling sorts. Topics could be frivolous, but when societies debated politics, religion, and the economy they were felt to voice threateningly radical opinions. When the reaction against the French … or Debates of the Robin Hood Society’ in London Chronicle, 8 August 1769. Another area of criticism was the way religion was discussed in debating societies ( Thale, ‘Deists, Papists and Methodists’).  In the Robin Hood Society in … for public debate among the lower and middling sorts. Topics could be frivolous, but when societies debated politics, religion, and the economy they were felt to voice threateningly radical opinions. When the reaction against the French …

Methodism [ Spirituality / Associational culture / Religious Belief ]

William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]

… Age of Johnson, A Scholarly Annual, vol.14 (2003), p. 281-305. Also see the interesting discussion of masculinity and religion by Jeremy Gregory, ‘Homo religiosus: Masculinity and Religion in the Long Eighteenth Century‘, Tim Hitchcock and Michele Cohen, English Masculinities 1660-1800 (1999; New … in which he outlined a ‘vision for a stable Christian social order’ ( ODNB  8) and, in 1823, of An Appeal to the Religion, Justice, and Humanity of the Inhabitants of the British Empire, in Behalf of the Negro Slaves in the West …