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Title
Nineteenth-century British secularism : science, religion and literature / Michael Rectenwald.
ISBN
9781137463890 (electronic book)
1137463899 (electronic book)
9781137463883
Published
Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Call Number
BL2765.G7
Dewey Decimal Classification
211.4/0941/09034
Summary
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on print version record.
Series
Histories of the sacred and the secular 1700-2000.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Secularity or the Post-Secular Condition; 1 Carlyle and Carlile: Late Romantic Skepticism and Early Radical Freethought; 2 Principles of Geology: A Secular Fissure in Scientific Knowledge; 3 Holyoake and Secularism: The Emergence of 'Positive' Freethought; 4 Secularizing Science: Secularism and the Emergence of Scientific Naturalism; 5 The Three Newmans: A Triumvirate of Secularity; 6 George Eliot: The Secular Sublime, Post-Secularism, and 'Secularization'; Epilogue: Secularism as Modern Secularity; Not es; Index
