ABSTRACT Modernity and the rise of mass democracy are intertwined. This contribution to this special issue on Christian modernities therefore focuses on how the churches responded to this key aspect of modernity. This paper addresses this through exploring the framing of ideas about democracy expressed by leading figures in the British churches, particularly Nonconformity, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the process claims about the religious roots of democracy and their role in preserving Britain from the slide to totalitarianism experienced elsewhere in Europe in the early twentieth century are critically examined.

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宗教与英国大众民主的兴起

摘要 现代性和大众民主的兴起是交织在一起的。因此，这篇关于基督教现代性的特刊的贡献集中在教会如何回应现代性的这一关键方面。本文通过探讨十九世纪和二十世纪初英国教会的主要人物表达的关于民主的思想框架来解决这个问题，特别是不合格。在此过程中，对民主的宗教根源及其在保护英国免于 20 世纪早期欧洲其他地方经历的极权主义滑坡中所起的作用的主张进行了批判性审查。