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Empire and Progress in the Victorian Secularist Movement

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Palgrave Macmillan


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Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700–2000

Paru le : 2021-12-01

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This book is the first extensive historical analysis of the relationship between empire and the Victorian secularist movement. Historians have paid little attention to the role of empire in the development of organized free thought. Secularism as it developed in Britain and its settler colonies was an overtly outward-looking, global ideology in a period marked by the rise of scientific rationalism and belief in the logic of a European civilizing mission. Recent scholarship has focused on how the empire influenced British and American atheists on the question of race. What is missing is an in-depth examination of the formation of secularist ideas about universal progress, ethics, and secular morality. Through an examination of the secularist periodical and pamphlet press, this book argues that the religious diversity of the British Empire helped to shape the ethical worldview of the secularists, providing ammunition for their critiques of Christian morality and the church and justification for their policy reform proposals both in Britain and the colonies.
Pages
188 pages
Collection
Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700–2000
Parution
2021-12-01
Marque
Palgrave Macmillan
EAN papier
9783030852016
EAN PDF
9783030852023
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1
Nombre pages imprimables
18
Taille du fichier
4628 Ko
Prix
116,04 €
EAN EPUB
9783030852023
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
1
Nombre pages imprimables
18
Taille du fichier
655 Ko
Prix
116,04 €

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