Religion In Victorian Britain

Author : Julie Melnyk
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : Gerald Parsons,John Wolffe
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,8 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 : Gerald Parsons
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0719029465

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Religion in Victorian Britain, Vol. IV by Gerald Parsons Pdf

During the late 1980s and early 1990s the city of San Francisco waged a war against the homeless. Over 1,000 arrests and citations where handed out by the police to activists for simply distributing free food in public parks. Why would a liberal city arrest activists helping the homeless? In exploring this question, the book treats the conflict between the city and activists as a unique opportunity to examine the contested nature of homelessness and public space while developing an anarchist alternative to liberal urban politics that is rooted in mutual aid, solidarity, and anti-capitalism. In addition to exploring theoretical and political issues related to gentrification, broken-windows policing, and anti-homeless laws, this book provides activists, students and scholars, examples of how anarchist homeless activists in San Francisco resisted these processes.This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 2, Zero hunger.

Author : Open University
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0719025133

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Religion in Victorian Britain: Controversies by Open University Pdf

Author : Marjorie Wheeler-Barclay
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813930510

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The Science of Religion in Britain, 1860–1915 by Marjorie Wheeler-Barclay Pdf

Marjorie Wheeler-Barclay argues that, although the existence and significance of the science of religion has been barely visible to modern scholars of the Victorian period, it was a subject of lively and extensive debate among nineteenth-century readers and audiences. She shows how an earlier generation of scholars in Victorian Britain attempted to arrive at a dispassionate understanding of the psychological and social meanings of religious beliefs and practices—a topic not without contemporary resonance in a time when so many people feel both empowered and threatened by religious passion—and provides the kind of history she feels has been neglected. Wheeler-Barclay examines the lives and work of six scholars: Friedrich Max Müller, Edward B. Tylor, Andrew Lang, William Robertson Smith, James G. Frazer, and Jane Ellen Harrison. She illuminates their attempts to create a scholarly, non-apologetic study of religion and religions that drew upon several different disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, the classics, and Oriental studies, and relied upon contributions from those outside as well as within the universities. This intellectual enterprise—variously known as comparative religion, the history of religions, or the science of religion—was primarily focused on non-Christian religions. Yet in Wheeler-Barclay’s study of the history of this field within the broad contexts of Victorian cultural, intellectual, social, and political history, she traces the links between the emergence of the science of religion to debates about Christianity and to the history of British imperialism, the latter of which made possible the collection of so much of the ethnographic data on which the scholars relied and which legitimized exploration and conquest. Far from promoting an anti-religious or materialistic agenda, the science of religion opened up cultural space for an exploration of religion that was not constricted by the terms of contemporary conflicts over Darwin and the Bible and that made it possible to think in new and more flexible ways about the very definition of religion.

Author : Aileen Fyfe
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226276465

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Science and Salvation by Aileen Fyfe Pdf

Threatened by the proliferation of cheap, mass-produced publications, the Religious Tract Society issued a series of publications on popular science during the 1840s. The books were intended to counter the developing notion that science and faith were mutually exclusive, and the Society's authors employed a full repertoire of evangelical techniques—low prices, simple language, carefully structured narratives—to convert their readers. The application of such techniques to popular science resulted in one of the most widely available sources of information on the sciences in the Victorian era. A fascinating study of the tenuous relationship between science and religion in evangelical publishing, Science and Salvation examines questions of practice and faith from a fresh perspective. Rather than highlighting works by expert men of science, Aileen Fyfe instead considers a group of relatively undistinguished authors who used thinly veiled Christian rhetoric to educate first, but to convert as well. This important volume is destined to become essential reading for historians of science, religion, and publishing alike.

Author : Robert Kiefer Webb
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415076258

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Religion and Irreligion in Victorian Society by Robert Kiefer Webb Pdf

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

Author : Hugh Mcleod
Publisher : Red Globe Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780333534908

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Religion and Society in England, 1850-1914 by Hugh Mcleod Pdf

The book examines the evidence and evaluates the many, and contradictory, theories that have been advanced to explain why this happened.

Author : Richard J. Helmstadter
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0804716021

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Victorian Faith in Crisis by Richard J. Helmstadter Pdf

A Stanford University Press classic.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0719025117

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Religion in Victorian Britain by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michaela Giebelhausen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351555289

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Painting the Bible by Michaela Giebelhausen Pdf

Painting the Bible is the first book to investigate the transformations that religious painting underwent in mid-Victorian England. It charts the emergence of a Protestant realist painting in a period of increasing doubt, scientific discovery and biblical criticism. The book analyzes the position of religious painting in academic discourse and assesses the important role Pre-Raphaelite work played in redefining painting for mid-Victorian audiences. This original study brings together a wide range of material from high art and popular culture. It locates the controversy over the religious works of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in debates about academicism, revivalism and caricature. It also investigates William Holman Hunt's radical, orientalist-realist approach to biblical subject matter which offered an important updating of the image of Christ that chimed with the principles of liberal Protestantism. The book will appeal to scholars and students across disciplines such as art history, literature, history and cultural studies. Its original research, rigorous analysis and accessible style will make it essential reading for anyone interested in questions of representation and belief in mid-Victorian England.

Author : J. Jeffrey Franklin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501715464

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Spirit Matters by J. Jeffrey Franklin Pdf

Orthodox Christianity, scientific materialism, and alternative religions -- The evolution of occult spirituality in Victorian England and the representative case of Edward Bulwer-Lytton -- Anthony Trollope's religion : the orthodox/heterodox boundary -- The influences of Buddhism and comparative religion on Matthew Arnold's theology -- Interpenetration of religion and national politics in Great Britain and Sri Lanka : William Knighton's Forest life in Ceylon -- Identity, genre, and religion in Anna Leonowens' The English governess at the Siamese court -- Ancient Egyptian religion in late-Victorian England -- The economics of immortality : the demi-immortal Oriental, Enlightenment vitalism, and political economy in Bram Stoker's Dracula -- Conclusion : from Victorian occultism to new age spiritualities

Author : Sue Morgan,Jacqueline de Vries
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136972331

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Women, Gender and Religious Cultures in Britain, 1800-1940 by Sue Morgan,Jacqueline de Vries Pdf

This volume is the first comprehensive overview of women, gender and religious change in modern Britain spanning from the evangelical revival of the early 1800s to interwar debates over women’s roles and ministry. This collection of pieces by key scholars combines cross-disciplinary insights from history, gender studies, theology, literature, religious studies, sexuality and postcolonial studies. The book takes a thematic approach, providing students and scholars with a clear and comparative examination of ten significant areas of cultural activity that both shaped, and were shaped by women’s religious beliefs and practices: family life, literary and theological discourses, philanthropic networks, sisterhoods and deaconess institutions, revivals and preaching ministry, missionary organisations, national and transnational political reform networks, sexual ideas and practices, feminist communities, and alternative spiritual traditions. Together, the volume challenges widely-held truisms about the increasingly private and domesticated nature of faith, the feminisation of religion and the relationship between secularisation and modern life. Including case studies, further reading lists, and a survey of the existing scholarship, and with a British rather than Anglo-centric approach, this is an ideal book for anyone interested in women's religious experiences across the nineteeth and twentieth centuries.

Author : Richard J. Helmstadter
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0804730873

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Freedom and Religion in the Nineteenth Century by Richard J. Helmstadter Pdf

The subject of religious liberty in the nineteenth century has been defined by a liberal narrative that has prevailed since Mill and Macaulay to Trevelyan and Commager, to name only a few philosophers and historians who wrote in English. Underlying this narrative is a noble dream--liberty for every person, guaranteed by democratic states that promote social progress though not interfering with those broadly defined areas of life, including religion, that are properly the preserve of free individuals. At the end of the twentieth century, however, it becomes clear that religious liberty requires a more comprehensive, subtle, and complex definition than the liberal tradition affords, one that confronts such questions as gender, ethnicity, and the distinction between individual and corporate liberty. None of the authors in this volume finds the familiar liberal narrative an adequate interpretive context for understanding his particular subject. Some address the liberal tradition directly and propose modified versions; others approach it implicitly. All revise it, and all revise in ways that echo across the chapters. The topics covered are religious liberty in early America (Nathan O. Hatch), science and religious freedom (Frank M. Turner), the conflicting ideas of religious freedom in early Victorian England (J. P. Ellens), the arguments over theological innovation in the England of the 1860’s (R. K. Webb), European Jews and the limits of religious freedom (David C. Itzkowitz), restrictions and controls on the practice of religion in Bismarck’s Germany (Ronald J. Ross), the Catholic Church in nineteenth-century Europe (Raymond Grew), religious liberty in France, 1787-1908 (C. T. McIntyre), clericalism and anticlericalism in Chile, 1820-1920 (Simon Collier), and religion and imperialism in nineteenth-century Britain (Jeffrey Cox).

Author : Dominic Erdozain
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843835288

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The Problem of Pleasure by Dominic Erdozain Pdf

The book combines intellectual, cultural and social history to address a major area of encounter between Christianity and British culture: the world of leisure.