Spirit matters : occult beliefs, alternative religions, and the crisis of faith in Victorian Britain

Spirit matters : occult beliefs, alternative religions, and the crisis of faith in Victorian Britain /

"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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Main Author: Franklin, J. Jeffrey (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018
Subjects:
English prose literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Occultism in literature.
Spiritualism in literature.
Occultism > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Spiritualism > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Religion and culture > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Great Britain > Religion > 19th century.
Electronic books.
Literary criticism.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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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