Interpreting seventeenth-century English religion as movements

Church History

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 749-769

  Sommerville, C John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

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EID: 67649371112     PISSN: 00096407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3169330     Document Type: Review

References (57)

1. James A. Beckford, "Explaining Religious Movements," International Social Science Journal 29 (1977): 236
2. Doug McAdam, John D. McCarthy, Mayer N. Zald, "Social Movements," in Handbook of Sociology, ed. Neil J. Smelser (Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage, 1988), 697-99
3. Roland Robertson, "Religious Movements and Modern Societies: Toward a Progressive Problemshift," Sociological Analysis 40 (1979): 304
4. Robertson, "Religious Movements and Modern Societies," 302
5. William Sims Bainbridge, The Sociology of Religious Movements (New York: Routledge, 1997), 3
6. Wilson, Introduction to Social Movements, 9. "Institutions" may be defined as offices or ideas that are generally accepted, honored, and perhaps enforced in a society
7. See also the definition of religious movement in Rodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge, "Of Churches, Sects, and Cults: Preliminary Concepts for a Theory of Religious Movements," Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 18 (1979): 124f.: "religious movements are social movements that wish to cause or prevent change in a system of beliefs, values, symbols, and practices concerned with providing supematurallybased general compensators."
8. Bainbridge, Sociology of Religious Movements, 395, says that movements exist to frustrate secularization theorists
9. Robert Wuthnow, "World Order and Religious Movements," in New Religions Movements: A Perspective for Understanding Society, ed. Eileen Barker (New York: Edwin Mellen,1982),48f
10. Wilson, Introduction to Social Movements, 35, 53-55
11. Wilson, Introduction to Social Movements, 4
12. Rudolf Heberle, "Social Movements," in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, ed. David L. Sills (New York: Macmillan, 1968), 14:440, also thought that social movements implied that society had lost its sacred aura, allowing abstract theories of history or Utopian principles to guide in social reconstruction
13. Charles Y. Glock, "The Role of Deprivation in the Origin and Evolution of Religious Groups," in Religion and Social Conflict, eds. Robert Lee and Martin E. Marty (New York: Oxford University Press, 1964), 24-36
14. C. John Sommerville, The Secularization of Early Modern England: From Religious Culture to Religious Faith (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992)
15. Patrick Collinson, The Elizabethan Puritan Movement (London: Jonathan Cape, 1967)
16. Roland G. Usher, The Presbyterian Movement in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth (London: Royal Historical Society, 1905)
17. Patrick Collinson, The Elizabethan Puritan Movement, 11-14
18. Collinson, The Elizabethan Puritan Movement, 14
19. Collinson, The Elizabetlian Puritan Movement, 134-42
20. Collinson, The Elizabetlian Puritan Movement, 145, 210-15
21. Collinson, The Elizabetlian Puritan Movement, 238, 303-6, 339-42
22. Patrick McGrath, Papists and Puritans Under Elizabeth I (London: Blandford, 1967), 241. In later works Collinson explored other religious categories such as Protestant nationalism, cultural revolution, popular religion, and voluntary religion, but did not return to an analysis of movements
23. See Patrick Collinson, The Religion of Protestants (Oxford: Clarendon, 1982)
24. C. John Sommerville, The Discovery of Childhood in Puritan England (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia, 1992), 21f
25. See especially Christopher Hill, Society and Puritanism in Pre-Revolutionary England (New York: Schocken, 1967)
26. Christopher Hill, Economic Problems of the Church (London: Panther, 1971 [1956]), 263
27. Tom Webster, Godly Clergy in Early Stuart England: The Caroline Puritan Movement, c. 1620-1643 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)
28. Webster, Godly Clergy, 4f., 338
29. William Haller, The Rise of Puritanism (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1957 [1938]), 10, 15, 25, 260
30. Sommerville, Discovery of Childhood, 23-28, 92-106
31. McGrath, Papists and Puritans, 62, 120, 170, 187
32. John Bossy, "The Character of Elizabethan Catholicism," Past and Present 21 (1962): 39-59
33. Martin J. Havran, The Catholics in Caroline England (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1962), 37-44, 62
34. Havran, Catholics in Caroline England, 134-47, 151-58
35. Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down (New York: Viking, 1972), 91, 97, 101f
36. Barry Reay, The Quakers and the English Revolution (New York: St. Martin's, 1985), 11
37. Hill, World Turned Upside Down, 301
38. Richard T. Vann, The Social Development of English Quakerism, 1655-1755 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, 1969), 197-206
39. On birthright membership, see also J. William Frost, The Quaker Family in Colonial America: A Portrait of the Society of Friends (New York: St. Martin's, 1973), 68
40. Richard T. Vann, "Nurture and Conversion in the Early Quaker Family," Journal of Marriage and the Family 31 (1969): 639-43
41. Reay, Quakers and the English Revolution, passim
42. David Underdown, Revel, Riot, and Rebellion: Popular Politics and Culture in England, 1603-1660 (New York: Oxford University, 1985), 239-70
43. Sommerville, Secularization of Early Modern England, 126, 170
44. See John Spurr, The Restoration Church of England, 1646-1689 (New Haven: Yale University, 1991), xvi
45. Sommerville, Secularization of Early Modern England, 171-74
46. C. John Sommerville, Popular Religion in Restoration England (Gainesville, Fla.: University Presses of Florida, 1977), 36-40, 43f., 49f., 55f., 129, 141f
47. Spurr, Restoration Church, 10, 26
48. John W. Packer, The Transformation of Anglicanism, 1643-1660 (Manchester: Manchester University, 1969), passim
49. Dudley W. R. Bahlman, The Moral Revolution of 1688 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University, 1957)
50. Paul Elmer More and Frank Leslie Cross, Anglicanism (London: SPCK, 1962), lix
51. Bullock, Voluntary Religious Societies, 159, 234
52. Quoted in Frederick C. Gill, The Romantic Movement and Methodism (London: Epworth, 1937), 16
53. Bernard Semmel, The Methodist Revolution (New York: Basic, 1973), 20f., 168f., 185-89
54. Miller, Popery and Politics, 197-202
55. J. R. Jones, The Revolution of 1688 in England (New York: Norton, 1972), 82, emphasizes that James only hoped for more eventual success
56. Jeffrey K. Hadden, "Religious Movements," in Encyclopedia of Sociology, eds. Edgar F. Borgatta and Marie L. Borgatta (New York: Macmillan, 1992), 3:1642-46
57. Wilson, Introduction of Social Movements, 359. This last page of Wilson's book is the only one devoted to movement failure or success