Spirit Matters : : Occult Beliefs, Alternative Religions, and the Crisis of Faith in Victorian Britain / / J. Jeffrey Franklin.
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 rel...
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| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Orthodox Christianity, Scientific Materialism, and Alternative Religions
- Part I: Challenges to Christianity and the Orthodox/ Heterodox Boundary
- 2 The Evolution of Occult Spirituality in Victorian England and the Representative Case of Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- 3 Anthony Trollope's Religion
- 4 The Influences of Buddhism and Comparative Religion on Matthew Arnold's Theology
- Part II: The Interpenetration of Christianity and Buddhism
- 5 Interpenetration of Religion and National Politics in Great Britain and Sri Lanka
- 6 Identity, Genre, and Religion in Anna Leonowens's The English Governess at the Siamese Court
- Part III: The Turn to Occultism
- 7 Ancient Egyptian Religion in Late Victorian England
- 8 The Economics of Immortality
- Part IV: The Origins of Alternative Religion in Victorian Britain
- Conclusion From Victorian Occultism to New Age Spiritualities
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index