Religion, society, and the historian

Journal of Religious History

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 149-167

  Collinson, Patrick ^a  

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EID: 0007125481     PISSN: 00224227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9809.00079     Document Type: Article

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25. T. H. Huxley, "Agnosticism," in Huxley, Collected Essays (London, 1877), 3:335-6. But perhaps the inventor was Herbert Spencer
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37. The World of Rural Dissenters, ed. Margaret Spufford (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995)
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47. Charles Phythian-Adams, "Ceremony and the Citizen: The Communal Year at Coventry, 1450-1550," in Crisis and Order in English Towns 1500-1700: Essays in Urban History, ed. P. Clark and P. Slack (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972), 57-85
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50. Professor A. G. Dickens, the doyen of English Reformation historians, is no less disparaging in his The English Reformation, rev. ed. (London: B. T. Batsford, 1989), 371-2
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55. and Part 1, "Background and Context," passim
56. Weber, The Protestant Ethic, 183, 284
57. From Max Weber, ed. H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills (New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1958), 268
58. Philip Benedict, "The Historiography of Continental Calvinism," in Lehmann and Roth, eds, 305-25
59. Fischoff, "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism," 72
60. See also Talcott Parsons's Introduction to Ephraim Fischoff's translation of Weber's Religionssoziologie, part of his Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (The sociology of religion) (London: Methuen, 1965)