A People's Church by Jeremy Morris

A History of the Church of England

A sweeping, accessible history of the Church of England told from the ground up, tracing its evolution from the Reformation to the present through the experiences of ordinary worshippers and local communities. It explores how parish life, social change, class and gender dynamics, empire and migration, revival and secularization, and shifting patterns of belief and worship reshaped the institution and its national role. Emphasizing lived religion over high politics, it shows how everyday practice continually remade the church, illuminating its tensions between establishment and popular faith and its contemporary challenges of diversity, decline, and renewal.

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