The Religious History of Wales: A Survey of Religious Life and Practice from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day

Allen, RC; Jones, DC

The Religious History of Wales: A Survey of Religious Life and Practice from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day

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Abstract

An essential reference guide, this volume draws together an impressive collection of academics and religious practitioners to map out for the first time the religious multiplicity and diversity of Wales. For the first fifteen hundred years or so of its existence, the Christian Church in Wales was a unified entity. The Welsh Church, initially Celtic, but then Roman Catholic, held a virtual monopoly over religious life and belief in the country. The sixteenth century Reformation ended the notion of a monolithic Christendom; the proliferation of Protestant sects guaranteed that competition and variety would be the norm. By charting the gradual proliferation of religious communities in Wales from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries, this volume seeks to dispel many of the myths of a monochrome Christian, Protestant or even Nonconformist Wales. Each chapter also uniquely examines the persistence of faith, often in surprising places, in post-Christian Wales. CONTENTS 1. The Church in Wales - John Morgun-Guy 2. Independents (Congregationalists) - Guto ap Gwynfor 3. Baptists - D Hugh Matthews 4. The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) - Richard C Allen 5. Roman Catholicism - Trystan O Hughes 6. Calvinistic Methodism - Eryn M White 7. Wesleyan Methodism - David Ceri Jones 8. The Moravian Church - John Morgan-Guy 9. Unitarianism - Euros Lloyd 10. Salvation Army - Jenty Fairbank 11. Pentecostalism - David Ceri Jones 12. United Reform Church - Robert Pope 13. Seventh-Day Adventism - Brian Phillips 14. The Church of the Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) - Ronald D. Dennis 15. Jehovah's Witnesses - Russell Grigg 16. Evangelicalism - David Ceri Jones 17. Judaism - Lavinia Cohn-Sherbok 18. Islam - Muzafar Jilani 19. Sikhism - Shinder Thandi 20. Baha'i Faith - Vivian Bartlett 21. The Ecumenical Dimension - Noel A. Davies