Sarah Williams is Research Professor of Church History at Regent College. Previously, she held research and teaching positions at the University of Birmingham, Harris Manchester College at Oxford, and Lincoln College at Oxford. She is author of Religious Belief and Popular Culture, The Shaming of the Strong, and co-author of Redefining Christian Britain. She has written a number of articles and reviews for academic journals such as Past and Present, The Urban History Yearbook, The Journal of Victorian Culture, The Journal of the Oral History Society, Archives De Sciences Sociales Des Religions, and The Journal of Nineteenth Century Studies. She has contributed to European Religion in the Age of Great Cities (Hugh McLeod ed.), and worked on a collaborative research project that was published as Women, Gender and Religious Cultures in Britain, 1800-1940.
Church and State in the Modern World
Speaker(s): Sarah Williams
Date: Spring 2015
Length: 18h58m
Product ID: RGDL4513S
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This series provides an opportunity to think carefully about the relationship between Christianity and politics, Church and State, personal faith and modern/post-modern civil society in order to situate political theory and church practice within the history of western culture since c1600.
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