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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452462403321

Autore

Phillips Paul T. <1942->

Titolo

Contesting the moral high ground [[electronic resource] ] : popular moralists in mid twentieth-century Britain / / Paul T. Phillips

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-7735-8834-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (245 p.)

Collana

McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion ; ; 2.62

Disciplina

170.92/2

Soggetti

Ethicists - Great Britain - Intellectual life - 20th century

Ethics - Great Britain - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1 The Setting -- 2 One World, One Faith: The Quest for Unity in Julian Huxley's Religion of Evolutionary Humanism -- Bertrand Russell: Reason, Love, and the Conquest of Fear -- Heaven in Heaven: The Cultural Apostasy of Malcolm Muggeridge -- Barbara Ward and the Social Conscience of Christianity -- Conclusion and Legacy.