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...religion has been principally focused on music and religious practice in Britain since the eighteenth century, and in the Methodist movement more widely. [Dr Helen Barlow] Dr Helen Barlow Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences The Open University Dr Helen Barlow researches into the social and cultural history of music in Britain and particularly Wales...

...nuns, and nobility, which reflect her single-mindedness, independent spirit, and refusal to be intimidated by power or authority. Hildegard travelled throughout southern Germany and into Switzerland and as far as Paris, preaching and evangelising. She died on 17 September 1179. She was formally canonized in 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI. Learn more about women in religion...

...religion were rarely published openly, but this did not prevent them becoming known (and often distorted). In 1755 he nearly went too far. In an essay called ‘Of the Immortality of the Soul’ (which you will be asked to read later in this course) he cast doubt on a doctrine that was, and is, central to most religions: that we survive the death of our bodies. After...

...pondering in my mind the deed of this messenger of good-will to man, this excellent Christian gentleman, and i felt ashamed of my religion. I felt ashamed of my politics, too. A few more such instances, said I, and I shall become a radical. At present, I feel equal to calling myself a LIBERAL CONSERVATIVE Brixton, Nov. 28 Originally published by the Daily News, 29-11-1868...