ABSTRACT

This article focuses on how sound – and hearing – shaped the relationship between religion and the urban environment in the rapidly industrialising towns of eighteenth-century northern England. Examining individual responses to sounds, it argues that not only did a religious ear help contemporaries to navigate and interpret urban space, but the sounds of the town could act as a stimulus to religiosity. It therefore challenges a prevailing historiographical tendency to associate urbanisation with declining religiosity, and instead argues for the importance of faith to how contemporaries inhabited and interpreted industrialising towns.

中文翻译：

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健全的信仰：英格兰北部城镇的宗教和听觉环境，约 1740-1830

摘要

本文重点关注声音和听觉如何塑造了 18 世纪英格兰北部快速工业化城镇中宗教与城市环境之间的关系。通过检查个人对声音的反应，它认为宗教耳朵不仅可以帮助同时代人导航和解释城市空间，而且城镇的声音还可以刺激宗教信仰。因此，它挑战了将城市化与下降的宗教信仰联系起来的盛行的历史编纂趋势，而是论证信仰对于同时代人如何居住和解释工业化城镇的重要性。