Constructing nineteenth-century religion : : literary, historical, and religious studies in dialogue / / edited by Joshua King and Winter Jade Werner.

• Superior document: Literature, religion, and postsecular studies
• TeilnehmendeR: King, Joshua, 1979-; Werner, Winter Jade,
• Place / Publishing House: Columbus : : The Ohio State University Press,, [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Literature, religion, and postsecular studies.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (286 pages).

Examines the ways in which religion was constructed as a category and region of experience in nineteenth-century literature and culture.

Table of Contents

Religion and the secular state: Loisy's use of 'religion' prior to his excommunication / Jeffrey L. Morrow -- A commonwealth of affection: modern Hinduism and the cultural history of the study of religion / J. Barton Scott -- "God's insurrection: politics and faith in the revolutionary sermons of Joseph Rayner Stephens" / Mike Sanders -- George Jacob Holyoake, secularism, and constructing 'religion' as an anachronistic repressor / David Nash -- Karl Marx and the invention of the secular / Dominic Erdozain -- From treasures to trash, or, the real history of 'family Bibles' / Mary Wilson Carpenter -- Rereading Queen Victoria's religion / Michael Ledger-Lomas -- Jewish women's writing as a new category of affect / Richa Dwor -- Hybridous monsters: constructing 'religion' and 'the novel' in the early nineteenth century / Miriam Elizabeth Burstein -- Material religion: C.H. Spurgeon and the 'battle of the styles' in Victorian church architecture / Dominic Janes -- Wilde's uses of religion / Mark Knight -- Reading Psalms in nineteenth-century England: the contact zone of Jewish/Christian scriptural relations / Cynthia Scheinberg -- Postsecular English studies and romantic cults of authorship / Charles LaPorte -- Theologies of inspiration: William Blake and Gerard Manley Hopkins / Michael D. Hurley -- William Blake, the secularization of religious categories, and the history of imagination / Peter Otto.