Voluntary religion : papers read at the 1985 summer meeting and the 1986 winter meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society - Sheils, William J.; Wood, Diana (Oxford : Blackwell for the Society, 1986)
Sects under Constantine / Stuart G. Hall -- Pachomios of Tabennesi and the foundation of an independent monastic community / Graham Gould -- Confraternities of Byzantium / Peregrine Horden -- New sects and secret meetings: associations and authority in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries / R.I. Moore -- Confraternities and the church in late medieval Florence / John Henderson -- Devotional confraternities in Renaissance Venice / Richard MacKenney -- Corpus Christi fraternities and late Medieval piety / Miri Rubin -- Social and economic spread of rural Lollardy: a reappraisal / Derek Plumb -- Godly community in theory and practice of the European Reformation / Euan Cameron -- Privy Kirks and their antecedents: the hidden face of Scottish Protestantism / James Kirk -- Leagues and associations in Sixteenth-Century French Catholicism / John Bossy -- Gracelesse and audacious companie: the family of love in the parish of Balsham, 1550-1630 / Christopher Marsh -- Genesis of a Godly community: two York parishes, 1590-1640 / Claire Cross -- English conventicle (Presidential address) / Patrick Collinson -- Oliver Heywood and his congregation / W.J. Shields -- Religious societies: Methodist and Evangelical 1738-1800 / John Walsh -- Idealism and association in early Nineteenth-Century dissent / Deryck Lovegrove -- From ranters to chapel builders: Primitive Methodism in the South Lincolshire fenland c.1820-1875 / R.W. Ambler -- Evangelical Alliance in the 1840's: an attempt to institutionalise Christian unity / John Wolffe -- Voluntaryism within the established church in Nineteenth-Century Belfast / S. Peter Kerr -- Volunatry absolutism: British missionary societies in the Nineteenth century / Peter Hinchliff -- Voluntary principle in the colonial situation: theory and practice / Margaret Donaldson -- From church to mission: an examination of the official missionary strategy of the Church Missionary Society on the Niger, 1887-93 / C. Peter Williams -- Building the 'Catholic Ghetto': Catholic organisations 1870-1914 / Hugh McLeod --/ Welfare state within the state: the Saint Vincent de Paul Society in Glasgow, 1848-1920 / Bernard Aspinwall -- Catholic federation 1906-1929 / Peter Doyle -- Finding a space for evangelicalism: evangelical youth movements in New Zealand / Peter J. Lineham -- Oxford Group Movement between the wars / D.W. Bebbington.
Keywords: Christian communities.Christian sects.Christianity Societies, etc