Spirit Matters : Occult Beliefs, Alternative Religions, and the Crisis of Faith in Victorian Britain /

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"Spirit Matters explores the heterodox and unorthodox religions and spiritualities that arose in Victorian Britain as a result of the faltering of Christian faith in the face of modernity, the rise of the truth-telling authority of science, and the first full exposure of the West to non-Christi...

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Autor principal: Franklin, J. Jeffrey (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Spiritualism in literature.
Spiritualism.
Religion and culture.
Religion.
Occultism in literature.
Occultism.
English prose literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Religion et culture > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Spiritisme > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Occultisme > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Spiritisme dans la litterature.
Occultisme dans la litterature.
Prose anglaise > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Religion and culture > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Spiritualism > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Occultism > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
English prose literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Great Britain.
Grande-Bretagne > Religion > 19e siecle.
Great Britain > Religion > 19th century.
Critiques litteraires.
Literary criticism.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Orthodox Christianity, scientific materialism, and alternative religions
  • Part I. Challenges to Christianity and the Orthodox/Heterodox boundary. 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
  • Part II. The interpretation of Christianity and Buddhism. 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
  • Part III. The turn to Occultism. 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
  • Part IV. The origins of alternative religion in Victorian Britain. Conclusion : From Victorian occultism to new age spiritualities.

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