Spirit matters : occult beliefs, alternative religions, and the crisis of faith in Victorian Britain / J. Jeffrey Franklin.
Franklin, J. Jeffrey, author.
2018
PR788.O33 F73 2018eb
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Spirit matters : occult beliefs, alternative religions, and the crisis of faith in Victorian Britain / J. Jeffrey Franklin.
Author
Franklin, J. Jeffrey, author.
ISBN
9781501715464 (electronic book)
1501715461 (electronic book)
9781501715457 (electronic book)
1501715453 (electronic book)
9781501715440
Published
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Copyright
©2018
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xx, 264 pages)
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PR788.O33 F73 2018eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
823/.91209034
Summary
"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-Christian religions. J. Jeffrey Franklin investigates the diversity of ways that spiritual seekers struggled to maintain faith or to create new faiths by reconciling elements of the Judeo-Christian heritage with Spiritualism, Buddhism, occultism, and scientific naturalism. Spirit Matters covers a range of scenarios from the Victorian hearth and the state-Church altar to the frontiers of empire in Buddhist countries and Egyptian crypts. Franklin reveals how this diversity of elements provided the materials for the formation of new hybrid religions and the emergence in the 20th century of New Age spiritualities." -- Publisher's description
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Orthodox Christianity, scientific materialism, and alternative religions
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
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
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
Conclusion : from Victorian occultism to new age spiritualities.

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