Nineteenth-Century British Secularism

Science, Religion and Literature

By:

Michael Rectenwald

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Hardback

Series:

Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700-2000

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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.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date NZ

February 8th, 2016

Author

Michael Rectenwald

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Edition

1st ed. 2016

Illustrations

VI, 257 p.

Pages

257

Series

Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700-2000

Dimensions

140x216x16

ISBN-13

9781137463883

Product ID

23064870

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