Turner, Michael J.

Dr. Michael J. Turner is the Roy Carroll Distinguished Professor of British History at Appalachian State University. He received his D.Phil. from the University of Oxford.

Churchmanship and Education Reform in Victorian Britain: The Case of A.J. Beresford Hope

2017 1-4955-0609-6
The subject of this book is Alexander James Beresford Hope (1820-1887), a staunch Anglican of High Church proclivities, very wealthy, a champion of the Gothic revival and member of several cultural and learned societies, a writer, collector, philanthropist, patron of the arts, and a respected if somewhat idiosyncratic force in the Conservative Party. Hope’s ideas and activity offer useful and even unrivaled insights into the educational agencies of the Church and the manner in which they were described and defended.

Religion and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Secularism, Conservatism, and Anti-Semitism

2018 1-4955-0705-X
This volume of essays is a mediation of the status of religion and politics in Nineteenth century Britain. It is based on a panel on the subject at the North American Conference on British Studies and brings together six academic experts on the subject.

THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND CONGRESS, 1860s -1880s: “OCCASIONS OF MUTUAL COUNSEL”

2026 1-4955-1341-6
The Church Congress had modest beginnings. It was the project of a small group of activists who were looking for ways to defend the status, influence, teachings, and property of the Church, to win for it more self-government, to boost clerical-lay cooperation, and to manage the consequences of unwelcome state policies, social and cultural changes, and intellectual trends. They wanted to give the Church a representative voice, or at least something that in the right circumstances could be exerted as such, and to prove that the Church was still relevant. The first Congress was held in 1861.

The Late Victorian Controversy about Hell, Judgment, and an Intermediate State

2021 1-4955-0836-6
Dr. Turner discusses attitudes toward judgment and the afterlife in late Victorian Britain, and relates them to their wider cultural and political framework.