書目名稱 | Empire and Progress in the Victorian Secularist Movement |
副標題 | Imagining a Secular |
編輯 | Patrick J. Corbeil |
視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/309/308831/308831.mp4 |
概述 | Argues that religious diversity of the British Empire helped to shape the ethical worldview of the secularist movement.demonstrates how comparative religion provided ammunition for their critiques of |
叢書名稱 | Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700–2000 |
圖書封面 |  |
描述 | .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.. |
出版日期 | Book 2022 |
關鍵詞 | Victorian era; British empire; atheism; secularization; freethinkers |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85202-3 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-85204-7 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-85202-3Series ISSN 2946-3351 Series E-ISSN 2946-336X |
issn_series | 2946-3351 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |