Class begins Monday, January 4th!
Last day to register is Friday, January 8th!
Living Religion in the Georgian and Regency Periods:
Church and Theology in Daily Life
Instructor: Dr Sam Hirst
Active Class Dates: 01/04/2021 – 01/17/2021
Cost: RFW-TBM Members: $15 — Non-Members: $20
Register: https://thebeaumonde.com/classes/
Registration closes on January 8th, 2021
Is this course image heavy? No and text description will be included. We will be dealing with contemporary sources with non-orthodox print but typed copies of key sources will be available.
This class will look at the religious landscape of the Georgian and Regency periods (an over of the 18th and early 19th centuries) and the multitude of ways in which religion formed a part of everyday life. This course will focus on Christianity as the state religion and will give an overview of Church History in the period. It will present not only an overview of the Church of England but of the various Dissenting groups and theologies which came to prominence in the period, including Methodism, Unitarianism and Millenarian Apocalyptic theology.
The course will also look at the ways in which religion inflected on everyday life with sessions on religion and education, the role of women in religious organizations and the way that sex and theology were intertwined with a focus on queer theology for those writing or interested in writing queer romance and understanding the ideological conditions of the time.
The course will offer a rich picture of the diverse religious tapestry of the period, uncovering some of the strange, wonderful, and influential factors that are often lost to history: from women giving birth to rabbits to abolitionary movements to sex demons and the role of ritual prayer in daily life. The course will also use examples from contemporary fiction and writings to show how these realities were reflected in books written at the time.
Dr Sam Hirst completed their PhD in Theology and the Gothic 1764 – 1832. They are a life-long romance reader and run ‘Romancing the Gothic’ – an online project which provides classes, workshops, book groups and author showcases dedicated to exploring Romance, the Gothic and history and how they all intertwine! Sam has numerous academic publications on Byron, Gothic Fairy-tales and Desire, Gothic Romance, Georgette Heyer and 18th Century Dream Theology (forthcoming) and has delivered more conference papers on all things 18th century theology and literature than they care to remember.
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