The Welsh Religious Revival, 1904-5
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5635201 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C R Williams, Chandler Williams (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1952 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 242 |
| Publication date | 1952-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1315 • E-ISSN: 1468-4446 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/586811 |
| OpenAlex | W2320292130 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
tN ANY attempt to assess the significance of the I904 religious revival in | Wales, one important factor has constantly to be borne in mind, namely, Athe pre-eminent position which nonconformity occupied in the life of the Principality during the nineteenth century. Religion probably exercised a greater influence on the lives of the people of Wales during the last century than was the case in England or in any other Protestant country. One might say that the NonconfoImist chapels and their ministers exercised an influence in Wales comparable vith that of the Roman Catholic Church among the peasants of Ireland or Spain: it was the basis of the social and the cultural pattern of life of the NlVelsh people. Socially and culturally, and often politically, their lixtes were centred on the chapel. Politically, socially and culturally, class differences in outlook coincided with religious differences, and this cleavage was intensified by a language barrier. The majority of the \Velsh lower and lower-middle classes, even at the end of the nineteenth century, were Welsh-speaking and constantly used the vernacular as their first language. These two classes were also almost entirely nonconformist by religious conviction, or if not always by conviction they were so by tradition. The uppermiddle and upper classes were nearly always English in speech and possessed little or no knowledge of Welsh; these people were traditionally Anglican in religious matters. Disraeli wrote of two nations in the England of his day; it would have been even more true to describe Wales in the nineteenth century as a land inhabited by two nations. In the rural areas there were the tenant farmers and farm labourers, united ^,ith the small shopkeepers, forming a \Velsh-speaking, nonconformist nation, and a smaller group of landowners, their agents and gamekeepers, doctors and headmasters of the church schools, forming a nation of English-speaking, Church of England worshippers. A similar state of affairs ensted in the industrial areas where the workers were still largely Welsh in speech and strongly nonconformist in religion, while the owners and the officials were predominantly English-spea} ing and usually members of the Anglican church
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 1960 - 2024 (65) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |