The Victorian city and the Christian imagination
From gothic city to garden city
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12275682 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frances Knight (0000-0002-0124-8118, University of Nottingham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 37-53 |
| Publication date | 2019-10-30 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0963-9268 • E-ISSN: 1469-8706 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0963926819000890 |
| OpenAlex | W2982565711 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 29 |
This article discusses some of the ways in which ideas about the city influenced the thinking of British Christians from 1840 to the early twentieth century. First, it explores nonconformist conceptions of the city, suggesting that, although the urban environment offered favourable circumstances for nonconformist growth, a desire to return to, or incorporate elements of, rural life was rarely far away. It explores why, when the garden city movement began, it found such fertile soil among Christian thinkers. Secondly, it considers some of the biblical paradigms that shaped late Victorian thinking about the city. Preachers and writers moved seamlessly from their well-stocked religious imaginations to contemplating the practicalities of the city, and back again. It is argued that the Christian evocation of medieval cities, biblical cities and garden cities shaped in important ways the conceptualizations of the urban world
Aesthetics · Art · Evocation · Nonconformist · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · History · Law · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment · Religious Freedom and Discrimination
The Nineteenth-Century Church and English Society
The Death of Christian Britain
Augustine of Hippo
Cities of God
Religion in the Age of Decline
Rival Jerusalems
Cremation and Christianity
The Discovery of Sodom, 1851
The City, the Countryside and the Social Gospel in Late Victorian Nonconformity
Building Jerusalem
Towards the Post‐Secular City? London since the 1960s
The Ideological Alliance of Political Economy and Christian Theology, 1798–1833
The Secularisation of Sin in the Nineteenth Century
To-morrow
Tories and Paupers
The Age of Atonement
Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century
New English Sodom
The English Churches in a Secular Society
Class and Religion in the Late Victorian City
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
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| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |