Disestablishmentarianism
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Disestablishment refers to the withdrawal of state support of an established church that was formerly part of the state establishment; someone in favour of it would be a disestablishmentarian and a political campaign for it would thus be disestablishmentarianism. A prime example of an established church is when the British monarchy under Henry VIII rejected the authority of the Roman Catholic Church in 1534 and established the Church of England. In 1920, the Church of England in Wales was disestablished and is now called the Church in Wales.
The National Secular Society is a noted contemporary advocate for the disestablishment of the modern Church of England, but there are few authoritative voices within the Church now calling for disestablishment.
The church-state links are now far less robust than in the 19th century when the campaign for the disestablishment of the church was in its heyday, led primarily by nonconformists such as Edward Miall, who was instrumental in founding in 1844 the British Anti-State-Church Association, renamed in 1853 the Society for the Liberation of Religion from State Patronage and Control, and known for short as the Liberation Society.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Mackintosh, William H.. Disestablishment and Liberation – The Movement for the Separation of the Anglican Church from State Control. London: Epworth Press. ISBN 0716202026.
[edit] See also
- Antidisestablishmentarianism
- Antiestablishmentarianism
- Christian anarchism
- Church in Wales
- Religion in the United Kingdom
- Secularism
- State Church
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