LEADER 04741nam 22006255 450 001 9910796585803321 005 20230814233709.0 010 $a1-5017-1546-1 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501715464 035 $a(CKB)3840000000334829 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4982981 035 $a(OCoLC)1008769531 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse65786 035 $a(DLC) 2017051440 035 $a(DE-B1597)496609 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501715464 035 $a(EXLCZ)993840000000334829 100 $a20190516d2018 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn#|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aSpirit Matters $eOccult Beliefs, Alternative Religions, and the Crisis of Faith in Victorian Britain /$fJ. Jeffrey Franklin 210 1$aIthaca, NY : $cCornell University Press, $d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (264 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a1-5017-1545-3 311 $a1-5017-1544-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $t1 Orthodox Christianity, Scientific Materialism, and Alternative Religions -- $tPart I: Challenges to Christianity and the Orthodox/ Heterodox Boundary -- $t2 The Evolution of Occult Spirituality in Victorian England and the Representative Case of Edward Bulwer-Lytton -- $t3 Anthony Trollope's Religion -- $t4 The Influences of Buddhism and Comparative Religion on Matthew Arnold's Theology -- $tPart II: The Interpenetration of Christianity and Buddhism -- $t5 Interpenetration of Religion and National Politics in Great Britain and Sri Lanka -- $t6 Identity, Genre, and Religion in Anna Leonowens's The English Governess at the Siamese Court -- $tPart III: The Turn to Occultism -- $t7 Ancient Egyptian Religion in Late Victorian England -- $t8 The Economics of Immortality -- $tPart IV: The Origins of Alternative Religion in Victorian Britain -- $tConclusion From Victorian Occultism to New Age Spiritualities -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aSpirit 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.Franklin investigates a broad spectrum of experiences through a series of representative case studies that together trace the development of unorthodox religious and spiritual discourses. The ideas and events discussed by Franklin through these case studies were considered outside the domain of orthodox religion yet still religious or spiritual rather than atheistic or materialistic. Among the works-obscure and canonical-he analyzes are Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Zanoni and A Strange Story; Forest Life in Ceylon, by William Knighton; Anthony Trollope's The Vicar of Bullhampton; Anna Leonowens's The English Governess at the Siamese Court; Literature and Dogma, by Matthew Arnold; and Bram Stoker's Dracula. 606 $aReligion and culture$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSpiritualism$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aOccultism$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSpiritualism in literature 606 $aOccultism in literature 606 $aEnglish prose literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 607 $aGreat Britain$xReligion$y19th century 610 $aspirituality, materialism, Buddhism, occultism, New Age. 615 0$aReligion and culture$xHistory 615 0$aSpiritualism$xHistory 615 0$aOccultism$xHistory 615 0$aSpiritualism in literature. 615 0$aOccultism in literature. 615 0$aEnglish prose literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a823.91209034 700 $aFranklin$b J. Jeffrey, $01123525 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910796585803321 996 $aSpirit Matters$93814094 997 $aUNINA