‘Baptists, Business and Respectability’: Elisha Smith (1754–1819) and Elisha Smith Robinson (1817–1885)

Studies of a rising middle class in the nineteenth century have suggested that economic success was often accompanied by political influence, and a growing sense of social respectability. Tracing the business interests of one family from a grocer’s shop in the Cotswolds in the late eighteenth centur...

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Главный автор: Smith, Karen E. 1957- (Автор)
Другие авторы: Copson, Stephen
Формат: Электронный ресурс Статья
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: 2023
В: Baptist quarterly
Год: 2023, Том: 54, Выпуск: 3, Страницы: 174-190
Индексация IxTheo:CH Христианство и общество
KAH Новое время
KBF Британские острова
KDG Свободная церковь
Другие ключевые слова:B Industry
B Baptist Missionary Society
B Cotswolds
B Bristol
B Class
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Итог:Studies of a rising middle class in the nineteenth century have suggested that economic success was often accompanied by political influence, and a growing sense of social respectability. Tracing the business interests of one family from a grocer’s shop in the Cotswolds in the late eighteenth century to the establishment of a Bristol-based, internationally-known company in the nineteenth century, this case study suggests that the growth of denominational life offered wealthy Baptists a particular place of respectability and service.
ISSN:2056-7731
Второстепенные работы:Enthalten in: Baptist quarterly
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/0005576X.2023.2186019