Stuart Mews
Biographic Data
| ID | 5807476 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stuart Mews |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stuart |
| FAMILY NAME | Mews |
| SIGNATURE | MEWS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University Ghana |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rama or ahimsa? Terror or Passive Resistance? Revolutionary Methods of Hindu Students from London University and the Christian Response, 1909–17
The assassination in London on the evening of 1 July 1909 of Sir Curzon Wyllie, aide-de-camp to the Secretary of State for India, by a twenty-six-year-old Indian student named Madar Lai Dhingra stunned the nation. The background to the shooting and its consequences shed light on the attitudes of British Christians to Indian Hindus. In turn light is shed on the response of Hindus, most crucially that of the eventual leader of the successful campai…
The Trials of Lady Chatterley , the Modernist Bishop and the Victorian Archbishop: Clashes of Class, Culture and Generations
‘Now firmly established as a modernist novelist’, D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) remains a controversial writer, especially for the ambiguity of his attitudes to fascism and feminism. This essay considers the role played by the then forty-one-year-old bishop of Woolwich, John Robinson, in offering evidence for the defence in the Old Bailey trial in 1960 which acquitted Penguin Books of obscenity in publishing Lawrence’s novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover …
Women in God's Army: Gender and Equality in the Early Salvation Army
Journal Article Women in God's Army: Gender and Equality in the Early Salvation Army Get access Women in God's Army: Gender and Equality in the Early Salvation Army by Andrew Mark Eason (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier U.P., 2003; pp. 256. Pb. $34.95). Stuart Mews Stuart Mews University of Gloucestershire Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXII, Issue 495, February 20…
From Shooting to Shopping: Randall Davidson’s Attitudes to Work, Rest, and Recreation
If Jose Harris was right when she asserted that ‘there was no such thing as a homogeneous Victorian work ethic’ and that a history of work, especially between 1870 and 1914, can only be written on the basis of the reported observations of, and reflections on, the work of individual farms, factories, homes, offices, and workshops, she would find few better sources than the astonishing variety of personal experiences and insights of Randall Davidso…
The Foundress and the Foundlings: The ‘Moral Panic’ of 1893 in the Orphanage of Mercy
Child abuse sometimes seems to be a discovery of the closing decades of the twentieth century. Academic attention was focused on the problem by a conference sponsored by the Royal Society of Medicine, chaired by the Health Minister Dr David Owen, in 1976. Among the twenty-six contributors was a member of our society, Professor Gordon Dunstan, and Dom Benedict Webb. The publicity for the published proceedings claimed that ‘Child abuse and neglect …
Music and Religion in the First World War
Listening to instrumental music has really become the only form of worship which is still possible to us.’ These words, said to have / been uttered by a distinguished Oxford philosopher, were quoted by Hastings Rashdall, then an Oxford theologian but later Dean of Carlisle, when he preached in Hereford Cathedral in connection with the Three Choirs Festival in 1912.’ Rashdall rejected the substitution of aesthetic appreciation in the concert hall …
The Hunger-Strike of the Lord Mayor of Cork, 1920: Irish, English and Vatican Attitudes
On 25 October 1920, a new name was added to the martyrology of Irish nationalism. On that date, the Lord Mayor of Cork, Alderman Terence MacSwiney, died in Brixton prison after a hunger-strike which had lasted 74 days. He had held office for little more than six months, his predecessor having been roused from sleep and shot, most Irish people believed, by plain clothed policemen. MacSwiney had succeeded not only to the symbolic positions of head …
The Sword of the Spirit: A Catholic Cultural Crusade of 1940
In the anxious second half of 1940 certain developments took place which cardinal Heenan, the late archbishop of Westminster, was to describe, somewhat grandly, as ‘the opening chapter of the modern history of religion in Great Britain’. He was referring to an unprecedented series of events which led up to and flowed from a letter to the Times in December extolling the five peace points of pope Pius XII. The letter was signed not only by the Roma…
The Revival of Spiritual Healing in the Church of England 1920–26
‘How are your healing groups going?’ the present archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, enquired rhetorically in a charge to service chaplains in 1979. ‘The renewal of the Church’s ministry of healing’ the bishop of Selby has even more recently written, ‘is one hard obstinate fact that future historians will be unable to ignore when examining the Christian scene in the present century.’ The bishop, who is co-chairman of the Churches’ Council fo…
The Second Coming: Popular Millenarianism 1780-1850 . J. F. C. Harrison
Short review and book note
The Bhagavata-Purana, Translated and annotated by Ganesh Vasudeo Tagare. Ancient Indian tradition and mythology series, vol. VII, Part I. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass 1976. Rs. 50.00 Joseph Head and S. L. Cranston, Reincarnation: The phoenix fire mystery, New York, Crown 1977. xix + 620 pp. $10.00 Grace G. Harris, Casting out anger. Religion among the Taita of Kenya, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 1978, 193 pp. £7.95 S. N. Kramer, From the p…
A review of Open University materials
Urban Problems and Rural Solutions: Drink and Disestablishment in the First World War
Over ten years ago Brian Harrison drew attention to certain inadequately explored areas ‘where Marx’s classes still make their appearance but are overlain by the more lasting dichotomies of traditionalist versus radical, provincial versus Londoner, town-dweller versus countryman, intellectual versus the mass, Anglican versus Nonconformist, male versus female’. This paper does not isolate the urban-rural dichotomy which for most of the twentieth c…
Neo-orthodoxy, liberalism and war: Karl Barth, P. T. Forsyth and John Oman 1914–18
There is a theological renaissance today’, proclaimed the American theologian Daniel Day Williams in 1952. ‘The rebirth of theology means a renewal of the effort to discover the foundations of the Christian life’. He maintained that following the publication of Karl Barth’s commentary on Romans in 1918 ‘there has been a deepening consciousness that there is a radical settlement to be made between Christianity and the thought and values of the mod…
Anglican intervention in the election of an Orthodox patriarch, 1925–6
I am very sorry for being the instrument through which some of these unprincipled Greeks, for their own selfish aims, troubled our Archbishop’; in March 1926 Llewellyn H. Gwynne, anglican bishop in Egypt had good reason to feel sorry, though perhaps not quite as much reason as his critics supposed. His apparently maladroit intervention in the name of the archbishop of Canterbury in the election of a new Orthodox patriarch of Alexandria had been m…
Religion in the social theories of Talcott Parsons
(1975). Religion in the social theories of Talcott Parsons. Religion: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 69-77
Short review and book note
Firth, Raymond, Symbols public and private, London, George Allen & Unwin, 1973, pp. 469, £6.60. Brown, L. B. (ed.), Psychology and religion. London: Penguin, 1973. Duchesne-Guillemin, J., Religion of ancient Iran (E.T. trans. K. M. JamaspAsa), Bombay, 1973, pp. viii + 271, £2. Morenz, Siegfried, Egyptian religion (E.T. trans. Ann E. Keep), London, Methuen, 1973, £7.50. Bunnag Jane, Buddhist monk, Buddhist layman: A study of urban monastic organiz…
Reason and emotion in working-class religion, 1794–1824
In the last decade considerable attention has been paid to Methodism, revivalism, and the development of working-class consciousness in early nineteenth-century England. The purpose of this paper is to add a few footnotes and caveats to some of the assertions which have been made about these topics. The assertions on which I wish to comment can be divided into two groups. The first includes the view widely accepted by sociologists and social hist…
Puritanicalism, sport, and race: A symbolic crusade of 1911
Race and recreation are two contemporary social problems which historically have had a close connection with religion. Religion has both sanctioned racial discrimination and provided the inspiration to overcome it. It has both opposed and encouraged particular forms of popular recreation. Sociologists and social historians are increasingly investigating the various combinations of these 3 Rs - religion, race, recreation. A great deal of work has …
Paul Tillich and the religious situation of American intellectuals
Kikuyu and Edinburgh: The interaction of attitudes to two conferences
Two conferences of some significance took place shortly before the First World War: the World Missionary Conference at Edinburgh in 1910, and the Kikuyu Conference, held at a Church of Scotland mission station at an out-of-the-way place in East Africa in 1913. In an Ecumenical Age, the fame of the former is likely to endure, the notoriety of the latter to be forgotten. Yet it was the controversy raised by the second conference which caused Lord M…
The Revival of Spiritual Healing in the Church of England 1920–26
‘How are your healing groups going?’ the present archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, enquired rhetorically in a charge to service chaplains in 1979. ‘The renewal of the Church’s ministry of healing’ the bishop of Selby has even more recently written, ‘is one hard obstinate fact that future historians will be unable to ignore when examining the Christian scene in the present century.’ The bishop, who is co-chairman of the Churches’ Council fo…
Urban Problems and Rural Solutions: Drink and Disestablishment in the First World War
Over ten years ago Brian Harrison drew attention to certain inadequately explored areas ‘where Marx’s classes still make their appearance but are overlain by the more lasting dichotomies of traditionalist versus radical, provincial versus Londoner, town-dweller versus countryman, intellectual versus the mass, Anglican versus Nonconformist, male versus female’. This paper does not isolate the urban-rural dichotomy which for most of the twentieth c…
Kikuyu and Edinburgh: The interaction of attitudes to two conferences
Two conferences of some significance took place shortly before the First World War: the World Missionary Conference at Edinburgh in 1910, and the Kikuyu Conference, held at a Church of Scotland mission station at an out-of-the-way place in East Africa in 1913. In an Ecumenical Age, the fame of the former is likely to endure, the notoriety of the latter to be forgotten. Yet it was the controversy raised by the second conference which caused Lord M…
Reason and emotion in working-class religion, 1794–1824
In the last decade considerable attention has been paid to Methodism, revivalism, and the development of working-class consciousness in early nineteenth-century England. The purpose of this paper is to add a few footnotes and caveats to some of the assertions which have been made about these topics. The assertions on which I wish to comment can be divided into two groups. The first includes the view widely accepted by sociologists and social hist…
Puritanicalism, sport, and race: A symbolic crusade of 1911
Race and recreation are two contemporary social problems which historically have had a close connection with religion. Religion has both sanctioned racial discrimination and provided the inspiration to overcome it. It has both opposed and encouraged particular forms of popular recreation. Sociologists and social historians are increasingly investigating the various combinations of these 3 Rs - religion, race, recreation. A great deal of work has …
Paul Tillich and the religious situation of American intellectuals
Short review and book note
Firth, Raymond, Symbols public and private, London, George Allen & Unwin, 1973, pp. 469, £6.60. Brown, L. B. (ed.), Psychology and religion. London: Penguin, 1973. Duchesne-Guillemin, J., Religion of ancient Iran (E.T. trans. K. M. JamaspAsa), Bombay, 1973, pp. viii + 271, £2. Morenz, Siegfried, Egyptian religion (E.T. trans. Ann E. Keep), London, Methuen, 1973, £7.50. Bunnag Jane, Buddhist monk, Buddhist layman: A study of urban monastic organiz…
Religion in the social theories of Talcott Parsons
(1975). Religion in the social theories of Talcott Parsons. Religion: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 69-77
Anglican intervention in the election of an Orthodox patriarch, 1925–6
I am very sorry for being the instrument through which some of these unprincipled Greeks, for their own selfish aims, troubled our Archbishop’; in March 1926 Llewellyn H. Gwynne, anglican bishop in Egypt had good reason to feel sorry, though perhaps not quite as much reason as his critics supposed. His apparently maladroit intervention in the name of the archbishop of Canterbury in the election of a new Orthodox patriarch of Alexandria had been m…
Neo-orthodoxy, liberalism and war: Karl Barth, P. T. Forsyth and John Oman 1914–18
There is a theological renaissance today’, proclaimed the American theologian Daniel Day Williams in 1952. ‘The rebirth of theology means a renewal of the effort to discover the foundations of the Christian life’. He maintained that following the publication of Karl Barth’s commentary on Romans in 1918 ‘there has been a deepening consciousness that there is a radical settlement to be made between Christianity and the thought and values of the mod…
A review of Open University materials
Urban Problems and Rural Solutions: Drink and Disestablishment in the First World War
Over ten years ago Brian Harrison drew attention to certain inadequately explored areas ‘where Marx’s classes still make their appearance but are overlain by the more lasting dichotomies of traditionalist versus radical, provincial versus Londoner, town-dweller versus countryman, intellectual versus the mass, Anglican versus Nonconformist, male versus female’. This paper does not isolate the urban-rural dichotomy which for most of the twentieth c…
Short review and book note
The Bhagavata-Purana, Translated and annotated by Ganesh Vasudeo Tagare. Ancient Indian tradition and mythology series, vol. VII, Part I. Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass 1976. Rs. 50.00 Joseph Head and S. L. Cranston, Reincarnation: The phoenix fire mystery, New York, Crown 1977. xix + 620 pp. $10.00 Grace G. Harris, Casting out anger. Religion among the Taita of Kenya, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 1978, 193 pp. £7.95 S. N. Kramer, From the p…
The Revival of Spiritual Healing in the Church of England 1920–26
‘How are your healing groups going?’ the present archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, enquired rhetorically in a charge to service chaplains in 1979. ‘The renewal of the Church’s ministry of healing’ the bishop of Selby has even more recently written, ‘is one hard obstinate fact that future historians will be unable to ignore when examining the Christian scene in the present century.’ The bishop, who is co-chairman of the Churches’ Council fo…
The Second Coming: Popular Millenarianism 1780-1850 . J. F. C. Harrison
The Sword of the Spirit: A Catholic Cultural Crusade of 1940
In the anxious second half of 1940 certain developments took place which cardinal Heenan, the late archbishop of Westminster, was to describe, somewhat grandly, as ‘the opening chapter of the modern history of religion in Great Britain’. He was referring to an unprecedented series of events which led up to and flowed from a letter to the Times in December extolling the five peace points of pope Pius XII. The letter was signed not only by the Roma…
The Hunger-Strike of the Lord Mayor of Cork, 1920: Irish, English and Vatican Attitudes
On 25 October 1920, a new name was added to the martyrology of Irish nationalism. On that date, the Lord Mayor of Cork, Alderman Terence MacSwiney, died in Brixton prison after a hunger-strike which had lasted 74 days. He had held office for little more than six months, his predecessor having been roused from sleep and shot, most Irish people believed, by plain clothed policemen. MacSwiney had succeeded not only to the symbolic positions of head …
Music and Religion in the First World War
Listening to instrumental music has really become the only form of worship which is still possible to us.’ These words, said to have / been uttered by a distinguished Oxford philosopher, were quoted by Hastings Rashdall, then an Oxford theologian but later Dean of Carlisle, when he preached in Hereford Cathedral in connection with the Three Choirs Festival in 1912.’ Rashdall rejected the substitution of aesthetic appreciation in the concert hall …
The Foundress and the Foundlings: The ‘Moral Panic’ of 1893 in the Orphanage of Mercy
Child abuse sometimes seems to be a discovery of the closing decades of the twentieth century. Academic attention was focused on the problem by a conference sponsored by the Royal Society of Medicine, chaired by the Health Minister Dr David Owen, in 1976. Among the twenty-six contributors was a member of our society, Professor Gordon Dunstan, and Dom Benedict Webb. The publicity for the published proceedings claimed that ‘Child abuse and neglect …
From Shooting to Shopping: Randall Davidson’s Attitudes to Work, Rest, and Recreation
If Jose Harris was right when she asserted that ‘there was no such thing as a homogeneous Victorian work ethic’ and that a history of work, especially between 1870 and 1914, can only be written on the basis of the reported observations of, and reflections on, the work of individual farms, factories, homes, offices, and workshops, she would find few better sources than the astonishing variety of personal experiences and insights of Randall Davidso…
Women in God's Army: Gender and Equality in the Early Salvation Army
Journal Article Women in God's Army: Gender and Equality in the Early Salvation Army Get access Women in God's Army: Gender and Equality in the Early Salvation Army by Andrew Mark Eason (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier U.P., 2003; pp. 256. Pb. $34.95). Stuart Mews Stuart Mews University of Gloucestershire Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXII, Issue 495, February 20…
The Trials of Lady Chatterley , the Modernist Bishop and the Victorian Archbishop: Clashes of Class, Culture and Generations
‘Now firmly established as a modernist novelist’, D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) remains a controversial writer, especially for the ambiguity of his attitudes to fascism and feminism. This essay considers the role played by the then forty-one-year-old bishop of Woolwich, John Robinson, in offering evidence for the defence in the Old Bailey trial in 1960 which acquitted Penguin Books of obscenity in publishing Lawrence’s novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover …
Rama or ahimsa? Terror or Passive Resistance? Revolutionary Methods of Hindu Students from London University and the Christian Response, 1909–17
The assassination in London on the evening of 1 July 1909 of Sir Curzon Wyllie, aide-de-camp to the Secretary of State for India, by a twenty-six-year-old Indian student named Madar Lai Dhingra stunned the nation. The background to the shooting and its consequences shed light on the attitudes of British Christians to Indian Hindus. In turn light is shed on the response of Hindus, most crucially that of the eventual leader of the successful campai…
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