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Excerpt from Terra Incognita: Or the Convents of the United Kingdom Before my readers will have perused many pages of this book, they will find that it is not a work of mere vague assertion, lightly written, but a carefully marshalled array of facts, derived from official and other unexceptionable sources. These facts, I flatter myself, will be found to present, in the aggregate, a body of evidence, alike interesting and useful. My object is to convey information on a subject about which much ignorance and misconception prevail; and I rejoice that I address those, who, whatever their misconceptions may be, are eminently lovers of what is fair and just. In a former publication I had the good fortune to write in a tone of candour and impartiality, that has been generously acknowledged and appreciated by readers and reviewers of every variety of religious profession and every shade of political opinion. I have spared no pains to preserve the same tone throughout every page of this book; and in this, at least, I trust I have succeeded. Strictly speaking, the word 'Convent' means a house for persons of either sex, living in community, and devoted to religion. The common acceptation of the word, however, is a house of religious women. Thus, we have lately heard a great deal about 'the Convent question, ' 'an inquiry into convents, ' and 'the inspection of convents.' We also read of 'convent schools, ' in the reports of Her Majesty's inspectors of schools. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
This is a source book for the study of religions in Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It covers an important period in the history of religions in Britain, a period of challenge to religion and a period of change in the religious map of Britain. Each author is a specialist in a particular aspect if this history, and there are extensive bibliographies. The book demonstrates how pluralistic the map of religion has been in Britain, thereby challenging the view that Britain is and has been a predominantly single religion country. This religious pluralism is shown to apply within the Christian religion as much as to those movements outside Christianity. There are six contributors: Dr Sheridan Gilley, (Durham); Rev Ieuan P. Ellis, (Hull) ; Professor Anthony O. Dyson, (Manchester); Dr Kim Knott, (Leeds); Dr David Hempton, (Belfast); Dr Kenneth A Thompson, (The Open University).