Religion during the Victorian Era

Christianity

Population

~Throughout the 19th century England was a Christian country

~The Church of England was increasingly only one part of a vibrant and often a competitive religious culture

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Most popular Religions

Lifestyle

~Over time the Anglican Communion became a social club

rather than a Christian church, while religion and politics divorced amicably.

~The period also saw the greatest burst of church building since the Middle Ages.

Christianity is:

the religion derived from Jesus Christ, based on the Bible as sacred scripture and professed by Eastern and Roman Catholic

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Behavior During religious school

~Talking and fidgeting would be punished

~If you did not pay attention or behave during the learning of your religion then you were most likely expelled

Judaism is

the religion developed among the ancient Hebrews that stresses belief in God and faithfulness to the laws of the Torah : the religion of the Jewish people

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Attending Church

~Women were more likely to attend church then men

~Women were the main instigators in families attending church regularly

There were not many temple's during the Victorian Era

Spiritual Beliefs

Talking with the dead

~In schools, there were different levels of rooms where you could study how to talk to spirits

~Many people had ceremonies to talk to dead spirits

Judaism

Religion during the Victorian Era

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Starting the Talking to Spirits

Spiritual Church

Population

Spiritualism owes its beginnings to Emanuel Swedenborg's

In Church on the upper floor were classrooms and, on the lower floor, were the Library and Study area, where so many people came to experience the wonder and marvels of Spirits!

~The number of Jews in Britain rose from 60,000 in 1880 to 300,000 by 1914, as a result of migrants escaping persecution in Russia and eastern Europe

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People studied books on how they could talk to people that they loved who unfortunately are dead. This then turned into magic

~Believing in the magic is all because of Emanuel Swedenborg's

Games

~There were games where you could talk to spirits through magic

~Christians believed in the spirits but not 100% of Jews believed in them as well

~Ouji Boards are board games where you talk to spirits in either pleasant or unpleasant ways

-When Jews are found in Victorian fiction, they are almost always portrayed as a stereotype rather than as human beings but when they came to Britain from a boat, their were plenty Jews

By: Alexa Fishman

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Beliefs

~It is said that some Jews believed in Spiritualism and

if they were, it was kept to themselves

Games

~They did not pray with Christians because they did not believe in all the same things

Bibliograghy

Praying

School

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Books:

~Many people had bibles if they were Christians

~Torahs or prayer books were meant for Jews

When Christians had to pray in school, they had to read out loud to the class. On the other hand; Non-Christians were not allowed to pray out loud so they either stayed seated or were asked to leave the room

Beliefs

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Schools

~In school everyone received a reading scroll on their own religion and were instructed to read one by one

~If you were not Christian then you could not read out loud- only along with the rest of the class, and sometimes Jewish children had to leave the room to pray the way they did

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Settings

~Praying took place mostly in churches or temples where people would sit for hours praying how their own religion did

~ Other people prayed in private rooms of their homes

Little Fact:

It didn't matter how old you were to pray, some were force to start praying at the age of three to four

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~Stanley, Tim. "The Contrarian: When Britain Still Believed in God." History Today. History Today Volume: 61 Issue: 5 2011, 22 Nov. 2014. Web. 23 Nov. 2014. <http%3A%2F%2Fwww.historytoday.com%2Ftim-stanley%2Fcontrarian-when-britain-still-believed-god>.

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