Albion M. Urdank

Birth, Death, and Religious Faith in an English Dissenting Community (eBook, ePUB)

A Microhistory of Nailsworth and Hinterland, 1695-1837

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This study lies at the intersection of three principal areas of social history: demography, religion, and quantitative methods. It is a microanalysis of an English population at the level of the Anglican parish, during the era of the evangelical revival, which includes, unusually, Protestant dissenters from the Established church, in this case Particular Baptists, who were moderate Calvinists. It goes a step beyond previous studies by giving Anglicans and Dissenters co-equal status in a comparative demographic analysis and by demonstrating how religious values informed procreative activity. It does so through a combination of advanced statistical methodologies and an innovative treatment of data collection forms as readable texts. The study concludes that the likelihood of another birth increased following a religious conversion experience, especially among both Anglican and Baptist wives following marriage. Mortality too had a less constraining effect on procreative activity which, in conformity with the English experience, was driven largely by fertility.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498523530
• Artikelnr.: 44832265

Autorenporträt

Albion M. Urdank is associate professor of modern British and European history at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Religious enthusiasm and reproduction: a probabilistic
connection
Chapter 3: Implicit narratives: textuality and emotion in demographic
behavior
Chapter 4: Baptist fertility
Chapter 5: Anglican fertility
Chapter 6: Mortality
Conclusion
Appendix 1: Fecund fertility rates by timing of female Baptist conversion
Appendix 2: Spacing of Selected Birth Intervals (Baptist)
Appendix 3: Fecund fertility rates by Anglican and Baptist female
conversion: Fecundity length
Appendix 4: Fecund fertility rates from combined Anglican and Baptist by
female conversion
Appendix 5: Spacing of Selected birth intervals (Anglican)
Appendix 6: Infant and child morality and burial rates
Appendix 7: Age-specific adult burial rates 1695-1837: overall and by
gender, tables A and B
Appendix 8: Age-specific adult burial 1695-1768 and 1769-1837: life-table
analyses