Nineteenth-Century British Secularism

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Science, Religion and Literature, Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700-2000

ISBN: 1137463880
ISBN 13: 9781137463883
Autor: Rectenwald, Michael
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: vi, 257 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 08.02.2016
Auflage: 1/2016
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

Nineteenth-Century British Secularism offers a new paradigm for understanding secularization in the nineteenth century. It addresses the crisis in the secularization thesis by foregrounding a nineteenth-century development called ‚Secularism‘ – the particular movement and creed founded by George Jacob Holyoake from 1851 to 1852. Nineteenth-Century British Secularism rethinks and reevaluates the significance of Holyoake’s Secularism, regarding it as a historic moment of modernity and granting it centrality as both a herald and exemplar for a new understanding of modern secularity. In addition to Secularism proper, the book treats several other moments of secular emergence in the nineteenth century, including Thomas Carlyle’s ’natural supernaturalism‘, Richard Carlile’s anti-theist science advocacy, Charles Lyell’s uniformity principle in geology, Francis Newman’s naturalized religion or ‚primitive Christianity‘, and George Eliot’s secularism and post-secularism.

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Beschreibung

Nineteenth-Century British Secularism offers a new paradigm for understanding secularization in nineteenth century Britain. It argues that George Holyoake's Secularism represents a historic moment of modernity, a herald for understanding secularization and modern secularity.

Autorenporträt

Michael Rectenwald is Professor of Global Liberal Studies at New York University, USA. He is editor of Global Secularisms in A Post-Secular Age (2015) and Academic Writing, Real World Topics (2015). He has published essays on secularism in The British Journal for the History of Science, The International Philosophical Quarterly, and George Eliot in Context.

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