Labour Prophet Tracts. No. 1-3. Second Series
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Release : 1895
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Author : Great Britain. Labour Church
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Page : 16 pages
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Release : 1895
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Author : Great Britain. Labour Church
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Page : 15 pages
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Release : 1894
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Release : 1893
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Author : Great Britain. Labour Church
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Page : 16 pages
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Release : 1892
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Author : John Trevor
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Release : 1896
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Author : Jacqueline Turner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 35,53 MB
Release : 2018-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1786724022
The Labour Church was an organisation fundamental to the British socialist movement during the formative years of the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and Labour Party between 1891 and 1914. It was founded by the Unitarian Minister John Trevor in Manchester in 1891 and grew rapidly thereafter. Its political credentials were on display at the inaugural conference of the ILP in 1893, and the Labour Church proved a formative influence on many pioneers of British socialism. This book provides an analysis of the Labour Church, its religious doctrine, its socio-political function and its role in the cultural development of the early socialist arm of the labour movement. It includes a detailed examination of the Victorian morality and spirituality upon which the life of the Labour Church was built. Jacqui Turner challenges previously held assumptions that the Labour Church was irreligious and merely a political tool. She provides a new cultural picture of a diverse and inclusive organisation, committed to individualism and an individual relationship with God. As such, this book brings together two major controversies of late-Victorian Britain: the emergence of independent working-class politics and the decline of traditional religion in a work which will be essential reading for all those interested in the history of the labour movement.
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Page : 264 pages
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Release : 1896
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Author : Neil Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 33,54 MB
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1315304570
This book aims to unpack the core message of the Labour Church and question the accepted views of the movement by pursuing an alternative way of analysing its history, significance and meaning. The religious influences on late-nineteenth/early-twentieth-century British Socialism are examined and placed within a wider context, highlighting a continuing theological imperative for the British Labour movement. The book argues that the most distinctive feature of the Labour Church was Theological Socialism. For its founder, John Trevor, Theological Socialism was the literal Religion of Socialism, a post-Christian prophecy announcing the dawn of a new utopian era explained in terms of the Kingdom of God on earth; for members of the Labour Church, who are referred to as Theological Socialists, Theological Socialism was an inclusive message about God working through the Labour movement. Challenging the historiography and reappraising the political significance of the Labour Church, this book will be of interest to students and scholars researching the intersection between religion and politics, as well as radical left history and politics more generally.