Religion and Irreligion in Victorian Society
Title | Religion and Irreligion in Victorian Society PDF eBook |
Author | R. W. Davis |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2013-01-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1135087555 |
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.
Religion and Irreligion in Victorian Society
Title | Religion and Irreligion in Victorian Society PDF eBook |
Author | Richard W. Davis |
Publisher | London : Routledge |
Pages | 205 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780415076258 |
First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Religion and Irreligion in Victorian England
Title | Religion and Irreligion in Victorian England PDF eBook |
Author | Hugh McLeod |
Publisher | |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Organized Freethought
Title | Organized Freethought PDF eBook |
Author | Shirley A. Mullen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2017-09-14 |
Genre | Free thought |
ISBN | 9781138071209 |
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.
The Victorian Crisis of Faith
Title | The Victorian Crisis of Faith PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Maxwell Young |
Publisher | |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 1970 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN |
Fr. Richard Schiefen collection.
Toward a Sociology of Irreligion
Title | Toward a Sociology of Irreligion PDF eBook |
Author | Colin David Campbell |
Publisher | London : Macmillan |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN |
Religion in Victorian Britain
Title | Religion in Victorian Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald Parsons |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN | 9780719051845 |
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.