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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254777303321

Autore

Rectenwald Michael

Titolo

Nineteenth-Century British Secularism [[electronic resource] ] : Science, Religion and Literature / / by Michael Rectenwald

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-46389-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Collana

Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700–2000

Disciplina

211.6094109034

Soggetti

Great Britain—History

Philosophy

History

History, Modern

Social history

Secularism

History of Britain and Ireland

History of Philosophy

History of Science

Modern History

Social History

History

Great Britain

England

Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.