The Regenerators, 2nd Edition : Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada /

"A crisis of faith confronted many Canadian Protestants in the late nineteenth century. With their religious beliefs challenged by the new biological sciences and historical criticism of the Bible, they turned from personal salvation to the dire social problems of the industrial age. The Regene...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cook, Ramsay (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2016.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social reformers.
Social gospel.
Church and social problems.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
RELIGION > Christian Life > Social Issues.
Évangile social.
Reformateurs sociaux > Canada > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Église et problemes sociaux > Canada > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Social reformers > Canada > History > 19th century.
Church and social problems > Canada > History > 19th century.
Canada.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to the Second Edition by Donald Wright
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Roots of Modernism: Darwinism and the Higher Critics
  • 3. The Anxieties of a Moral Interregnum
  • 4. Positivism, Secular Thought, and the Religion of Humanity
  • 5. Spiritualism, Science of the Earthly Paradise
  • 6. Richard Maurice Bucke: Religious Heresiarch and Utopian
  • 7. Toward a Christian Political Economy
  • 8. 'A Republic of God, a Christian Republic'
  • 9. 'The New City of Friends': Evolution, Theosophy, and Socialism.

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