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Female missionaries, supported by male Indian assistants, sustained much of the clinical work of the Bhil mission. Jane Birkett and Margaret Hodgkinson were the wives of ordained missionaries, but others, such as Helen Bull and Rowena Watts, were single women. In her history of American women missionaries Dana Robert has shown that until the mid-nineteenth century, women were to a large
7 ‘The work of succouring refugees is going forward’: the Manchester Jewish Refugees Committee, 1939–1940 The decisive factor which drew provincial communities into the more systematic rescue of refugees was the escalating number of those seeking entry to Britain following the Anschluss (March 1938), the German occupation of the Sudetenland (October 1938), the Kristallnacht pogrom (9 November 1938), the British Government’s decision to facilitate the entry of unaccompanied children on the Kindertransport (21 November 1938) and the German annexation of Bohemia and
modern clerics making forays into print. Hill portrayed himself as attentive first to his own parishioners, but desirous for his efforts to resonate more broadly; as under authority in general, yet responding particularly to a local bishop; and as being in need of certain types of assistance in order for his work to prosper – here requesting the Lord Chancellor’s patronage for this book and, as he went
against the large Jewish minority of the city, that had been openly espoused by a major political and social force in Vienna – the Christian Social movement. 2 At first glance, the responsibility of the movement for widespread antisemitism might appear unlikely, since many of its principles matched those of centre-right or even liberal groups. Its key figures praised the outlook and work ethic of its base of lower bourgeois supporters. They promoted self-reliance and the creation of charitable and mutual associations, rather than state intervention, as means of
As Peter Pulzer has indicated, antisemitism, ‘pursued for its own sake or as an integral part of a wider political ideology … flourishes only in particular economic and social conditions’ in a post-liberal society. 1 However, organised antisemitism also requires a dedicated and coordinated cohort of activists. In Vienna, this was the Christian Social movement, and this chapter draws together a number of points that have been made in this work about this movement. However, this chapter is not a synopsis of everything that has been written here. For instance
, and content while pursuing authorship in ways that complemented and extended parish ministry. Examining the different career contexts, theological emphases, and choices related to print that I highlight below will both broaden and nuance our view of potential avenues for pastoral-authorial engagement, and will demonstrate yet more connections between parish and print work
becoming active) and Epworth (his hometown and where he had recently served as curate). In ensuing years, Bernard frequently incorporated writing into his pastoral activities: often, but not always, with print publication. This chapter addresses ways he did so in his early career – a tumultuous period in which he began work within the national church, was removed from his post for
‘passivity’ of the senior Austrian clergy with regard to the social and economic policies and actions of the Austrian state, which remained essentially liberal, even under conservative governments in the 1880s and 1890s. This challenge then led the senior clergy, for a number of reasons, to oppose the activism of the lower clergy. 34 The research undertaken for this work does not chime with these conclusions, especially with regard to the opposition that the senior clergy are said to have mounted to clerical activists. This finding, in turn, raises questions about the
Bernard wrote, and submitted for license, the tripartite reference work Thesaurus Biblicus during the 1630s. Initially rejected, it was finally entered in the stationers’ register in April 1641 (published 1644, a delay that can be associated with printers’ concerns about competition for large volumes). 1 In what follows, I address Bernard
Burton’s anonymous 1636 publication A Divine Tragedie Lately Acted , which described instances of divine judgement on individuals breaking the Sabbath. 19 Godly Somerset clothier John Ashe received 200 copies to sell for 8d each and distributed the work to a variety of individuals; Bernard was among those receiving a copy. He in turn lent it to Edmund Morgan, rector of Pill. 20