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Preaching in Britain’s “Parish Church”: Sermons at London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral, in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (2019)
Journal Article
Knight, F. (2019). Preaching in Britain’s “Parish Church”: Sermons at London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral, in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Sermon Studies, 3(1), 5-18

This paper will address the conference themes of ‘space, place and context’ with an examination of the development of preaching at St Paul’s Cathedral in London, over the course of two hundred years. Completely rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1666, o... Read More about Preaching in Britain’s “Parish Church”: Sermons at London’s St. Paul’s Cathedral, in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.

The Victorian city and the Christian imagination: from gothic city to garden city (2019)
Journal Article
Knight, F. (2021). The Victorian city and the Christian imagination: from gothic city to garden city. Urban History, 48(1), 37-53. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963926819000890

This article discusses some of the ways in which ideas about the city influenced the thinking of British Christians from 1840 to the early twentieth century. First, it explores nonconformist conceptions of the city, suggesting that, although the urba... Read More about The Victorian city and the Christian imagination: from gothic city to garden city.

Cremation and Christianity: English Anglican and Roman Catholic attitudes to cremation since 1885 (2017)
Journal Article
Knight, F. (2018). Cremation and Christianity: English Anglican and Roman Catholic attitudes to cremation since 1885. Mortality, 23(4), 301-319. https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2017.1382460

Britain was the first modern European country to adopt the widespread practice of cremation, and by 2010, it took place in around three-quarters of all funerals. Although the clergy had ceased to be the exclusive custodians of funeral ritual, their v... Read More about Cremation and Christianity: English Anglican and Roman Catholic attitudes to cremation since 1885.