Bøger i Bangor History of Religion serien

Demonstrates how religion and faith have informed Welsh national identity from the seventeenth century, touching upon the Puritan period, the Older Dissent of the eighteenth century, nineteenth-century Nonconformity and the impact of secularism during the twentieth century.

Provides a history of the modern ecumenical movement in Wales, a movement which has attempted to foster collaboration among the churches and denominations, and has promoted the search for union between the churches and has enabled the churches to work in partnership in responding to national and international social, economic and cultural list.

This work offers a modern appraisal of the Welsh Methodist leader and revivalist, Howell Harris. His influence on the development of early Methodism is charted and the period from his conversion in 1735 to his secession with Daniel Rowland is examined.

This text charts and accounts for the remarkable growth of the Roman Catholic Church in Wales between the formation of its Province of Wales in 1916 and the commencement of the Second Vatican Council in 1962. It goes on to examine reaction to the expansion, both from within and outside the church.