RT Book
T1 Spirit Matters: Occult Beliefs, Alternative Religions, and the Crisis of Faith in Victorian Britain
A1 Franklin, J. Jeffrey
LA English
PP Ithaca
PB Cornell University Press
YR 2018
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1014599652
AB 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
AB Spirit Matters -- 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: The Orthodox/Heterodox Boundary -- 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: William Knighton’s Forest Life in Ceylon -- 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: The Demi-immortal Oriental, Enlightenment Vitalism, and Political Economy in Bram Stoker’s Dracula -- Part IV: The Origins of Alternative Religion in Victorian Britain -- Conclusion: From Victorian Occultism to New Age Spiritualities -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
SN 9781501715464
K1 English prose literature : 19th century : History and criticism
K1 Occultism : Great Britain : History : 19th century
K1 Spiritualism : Great Britain : History : 19th century
K1 Religion and culture : Great Britain : History : 19th century
K1 Occultism in literature
K1 Spiritualism in literature
K1 English prose literature-English prose literature-19th century-History and criticism.
K1 Electronic books
K1 Great Britain : Religion : 19th century