Religion And Irreligion In Victorian Society

Author : R. W. Davis,R. J. Helmstadter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135087555

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Religion and Irreligion in Victorian Society by R. W. Davis,R. J. Helmstadter Pdf

First published in 1992.This volume of eleven specially commissioned essays celebrates the work of Robert K. Webb, one of the foremost historians of modern Britain. The contributors, established scholars from Britain, Canada, Australia and the United States, address some of the central themes in the history of nineteenth-century religion, including evangelicalism and the culture of the market economy, religious issues in the liberal politics of the 1830s, the radical atheist Robert Taylor, Charles Darwin, the Victorian ideal of `manliness', nineteenth century images of Mary Magdalene, the Jews in Victorian society, colonialism, the role of women missionaries as models of female achievement, and spiritualism during the Great War. Together these essays make a significant contribution to the study of the role of religion in Victorian society.

Author : Richard W. Davis
Publisher : London : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0415076250

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Religion and Irreligion in Victorian Society by Richard W. Davis Pdf

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Hugh McLeod
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : England
ISBN : UCSC:32106011653182

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Religion and Irreligion in Victorian England by Hugh McLeod Pdf

Author : Shirley A. Mullen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351628471

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Organized Freethought by Shirley A. Mullen Pdf

This title, first published in 1987, explores the phenomenon of militant freethought among England’s working classes from 1840-1870. In particular, it is an effort to explain the peculiarly theological and evangelistic overtones of much Victorian working class radicalism, and the resulting emergence of a Victorian religion of atheism. This title will be of interest to students of nineteenth-century religious and social history.

Author : Open University
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0719025133

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Religion in Victorian Britain: Controversies by Open University Pdf

Author : Gerald Parsons,James Richard Moore
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0719029449

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Religion in Victorian Britain by Gerald Parsons,James Richard Moore Pdf

A. T. Moore's thorough commentary on "Love's Sacrifice" is designed to be of use to all kinds of readers, from students of Early Modern drama to specialists in the field. The notes provide full explanations of obscure words and phrases, and offer analyzes of many aspects of staging and interpretation. The text for this edition is based on a fresh study of the quarto of 1633, the only authoritative early text. In his introduction to the play, Moore reappraises the evidence for the play's date of composition. He also looks at the circumstances of the play's genesis, presenting detailed discussions of both the theater where "Love's Sacrifice" was first performed and the acting company for which it was written. Arguing that Ford's adaptation of his source materials is the key to interpreting this remarkably allusive play, Moore provides a wealth of new information about Ford's sources.The introduction also includes a survey of critical responses, an overview of the play, stage history, and a bibliography of relevant secondary material. This new volume in the "Revels Plays" series is the most detailed and comprehensive edition of "Love's Sacrifice" ever published - and the first modern-spelling edition of Ford's tragedy in more than a century. The play's textual history is discussed in an appendix. A second appendix examines possible links between "Love's Sacrifice" and the real-life story of the murdered Italian prince and musician Carlo Gesualdo.

Author : Julie Melnyk
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015076144560

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Victorian Religion by Julie Melnyk Pdf

Religion permeated almost every aspect of Victorian life and culture, from Parliamentary politics to issues of marriage and sexuality, from class relations to literature and the life of the imagination. In order to understand Victorian culture and writings, modern readers need to understand Victorian religion in its public and its private aspects. But much in Victorian religious life can be baffling for modern readers. The sheer diversity of Victorian religious experience is one source of confusion. Also, doctrinal disputes and discoveries in science or textual criticism that loomed so large for Victorian Christians are now hard for most people to appreciate. The Anglican Church, its hierarchy, and its enormous range of ecclesiastical titles open up further opportunities for confusion. Here, Melnyk offers a lively, thorough introduction to Victorian religious life, including the period between 1828 and 1901. Making sense of the diversity of religious thought and experience in Victorian Britain, she provides readers with a clear understanding of its role in the family and for the individual, the community, and society at large. This entertaining, readable introduction to Victorian religious life and controversies is ideal for anyone interested in Victorian life, literature, and culture.

Author : W. M. Jacob
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192651747

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Religious Vitality in Victorian London by W. M. Jacob Pdf

This innovative book challenges many of the widely held assumptions about the place of religion in Victorian society and in London, the world's first great industrial and commercial metropolis. Against the background of Victorian London it explores the religiosity of Londoners as expressed through the dynamic renewal of traditional faith communities, including Judaism and the historic churches, as well as fresh expressions of religion, including the Salvation Army, Mormons, spiritualism, and the occult. It shows how laypeople, especially the rich and women were mobilised in the service of their faith, and their fellow citizens. Drawing on research in social, economic, oral, cultural, and women's history Jacob argues that religious motivations lay behind concerns that subsequently preoccupied people in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These include the changing place of women in society, an active concern for social justice, the sexual exploitation of women and children, and provision of education for all classes and all ages. By examining religion broadly, in its social and cultural context and looking beyond conventional approaches to religious history, Religious Vitality in Victorian London illustrates the dynamic significance of religion in society influencing even the expression of secularism.

Author : Richard J. Helmstadter
Publisher : University Press of Amer
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0819149942

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Religion in Victorian Society by Richard J. Helmstadter Pdf

Author : Gerald Parsons,John Wolffe
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0719051843

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Religion in Victorian Britain by Gerald Parsons,John Wolffe Pdf

Provides an expansion of the first four volumes, containing both specially written essays and a related compilation of primary sources, drawn from the writings of the day. The text explores the wider context of religion in Victorian Britain, both in relation to the development of the Empire and its consequences. The introduction sets the scene and also provides an overview of scholarship on Victorian religion in the years since the first four volumes were published in 1988.

Author : Herbert Schlossberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351526777

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Conflict and Crisis in the Religious Life of Late Victorian England by Herbert Schlossberg Pdf

Contrary to its popular image as dull and stodgy, the Victorian period was one of revolutionary change. In its politics, its art, its economic aff airs, its class relationships, and in its religion, change was constant. A half-century after Queen Victoria's death, it was said that she was born in one world and died in another. Th e most interesting and valuable studies of the period take the long view, as does Schlossberg, in his fascinating analysis of religious life in this period. For the Victorians, religion was not cordoned off from the push and shove of real life. Th e early evangelicals got off to a shaky start, beset by hostility, but the movement spread within the churches despite the suspicion in which it was held. Evangelicals, frequently called Puritans by those who opposed them, called for fundamental reforms in both the Church and the society; a social ethic was part of their program of religious renewal. Th eir moral sense explains the social activism of both Church of England Evangelicals and Dissenters, including the half-century crusade for the abolition of slavery. Schlossberg shows how religion in England dealt with such issues as science and the eff ect of German scholarship on religious thinking. Church history cannot simply be explained by its response to external forces as much as by the internal responses to those challenges. Th e nature of the religious enterprise itself, its theologians, clergy, lay people--like all people and all institutions--all responded with alternatives. Schlossberg helps us understand the Victorian period, as well as the increasing secularity of English life today.

Author : Patrick J. Corbeil
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030852023

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Empire and Progress in the Victorian Secularist Movement by Patrick J. Corbeil Pdf

This book is the first extensive historical analysis of the relationship between empire and the Victorian secularist movement. Historians have paid little attention to the role of empire in the development of organized free thought. Secularism as it developed in Britain and its settler colonies was an overtly outward-looking, global ideology in a period marked by the rise of scientific rationalism and belief in the logic of a European civilizing mission. Recent scholarship has focused on how the empire influenced British and American atheists on the question of race. What is missing is an in-depth examination of the formation of secularist ideas about universal progress, ethics, and secular morality. Through an examination of the secularist periodical and pamphlet press, this book argues that the religious diversity of the British Empire helped to shape the ethical worldview of the secularists, providing ammunition for their critiques of Christian morality and the church and justification for their policy reform proposals both in Britain and the colonies.

Author : Naomi Hetherington,Clare Stainthorp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351272100

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Nineteenth-Century Religion, Literature and Society by Naomi Hetherington,Clare Stainthorp Pdf

This four-volume historical resource provides new opportunities for investigating the relationship between religion, literature and society in Britain and its imperial territories by making accessible a diverse selection of harder-to-find primary sources. These include religious fiction, poetry, essays, memoirs, sermons, travel writing, religious ephemera, unpublished notebooks and pamphlet literature. Spanning the long nineteenth century (c.1789–1914), the resource departs from older models of ‘the Victorian crisis of faith’ in order to open up new ways of conceptualising religion. Volume four on ‘Disbelief and New Beliefs’ explores the transformation of the religious landscape of Britain and its imperial territories during the nineteenth century as a result of key cultural and intellectual forces.

Author : Leonard Elliott Elliott-Binns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCAL:B3950580

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Religion in the Victorian Era by Leonard Elliott Elliott-Binns Pdf

Author : Philip Lockley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199663873

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Visionary Religion and Radicalism in Early Industrial England by Philip Lockley Pdf

Early industrial England witnessed significant interactions between millenarianism and traditions of radical popular politics, including the first English socialisms. This book provides a detailed archive-based study of Southcottianism from 1815 to 1840 that revises many previous assumptions about this popular millenarian movement.