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Religion on an Ordinary Day in UK News: Christianity, Secularism and Diversity (2021)
Journal Article
Poole. (2021). Religion on an Ordinary Day in UK News: Christianity, Secularism and Diversity. Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture, 179-202. https://doi.org/10.1163/21659214-bja10043

This article examines representations of religion on an ordinary day in British newspapers, 17 September in 2013, 2014 and 2015, as part of an international comparative study. Taking as its sample The Times, the Metro and a local newspaper, the Manch... Read More about Religion on an Ordinary Day in UK News: Christianity, Secularism and Diversity.

Anne Conway and George Keith on the ‘Christ Within’ (2017)
Journal Article
Head. (2017). Anne Conway and George Keith on the ‘Christ Within’. Quaker Studies, 277-295. https://doi.org/10.5840/philtheol201781480

This paper explores the influence of early Quaker theology on the philosophy of Anne Conway, as presented in her The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy (1690). We begin by exploring Conway’s rejection of the remnants of Cartesianism... Read More about Anne Conway and George Keith on the ‘Christ Within’.

In One We Shall Be Slower: Byron, Retribution and Forgiveness (2017)
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Shears, J. (2017). In One We Shall Be Slower: Byron, Retribution and Forgiveness. Christianity and Literature, 193-212. https://doi.org/10.1177/0148333116645609

While Byron is a poet often associated with feelings of resentment and anger, he is usually marginalized when it comes to the topic of forgiveness in the Romantic period. If forgiveness is debated in Byron then it is usually dominated by the suspicio... Read More about In One We Shall Be Slower: Byron, Retribution and Forgiveness.

The Wordless Book: The Visual and Material Culture of Evangelism in Victorian Britain (2016)
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Janes. (2016). The Wordless Book: The Visual and Material Culture of Evangelism in Victorian Britain. Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief, 26-49. https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2015.1120085

The Wordless Book is widely used today in programs of Christian teaching and evangelism across the world. It consists of a series of blank pages which are colored in accordance with religious symbolism (black in reference to sin, red in reference to... Read More about The Wordless Book: The Visual and Material Culture of Evangelism in Victorian Britain.

The role of visual appearance in Punch’s early Victorian satires on religion (2014)
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Janes. (2014). The role of visual appearance in Punch’s early Victorian satires on religion. Victorian Periodicals Review, 66-86. https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2014.0006

Satires on various aspects of contemporary religion are frequently found in early Victorian editions of Punch. The more strident forms of Protestant evangelicalism in the 1840s and Roman Catholic revivalism in the early 1850s came in for particular a... Read More about The role of visual appearance in Punch’s early Victorian satires on religion.