ABSTRACT
This four-volume historical resource provides new opportunities for investigating the relationship between religion, literature and society in Britain and its imperial territories by making accessible a diverse selection of harder-to-find primary sources. These include religious fiction, poetry, essays, memoirs, sermons, travel writing, religious ephemera, unpublished notebooks and pamphlet literature. Spanning the long nineteenth century (c.1789–1914), the resource departs from older models of ‘the Victorian crisis of faith’ in order to open up new ways of conceptualising religion. Volume four on ‘Disbelief and New Beliefs’ explores the transformation of the religious landscape of Britain and its imperial territories during the nineteenth century as a result of key cultural and intellectual forces.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|68 pages
Biblical Criticism
section 1.1|31 pages
Hebrew Bible Criticism
chapter 1|13 pages
James Heywood (ED.), Introduction to the Book of Genesis with a Commentary on the Opening Portion, From the German of Dr Peter Von Bohlen
chapter 2|13 pages
Claude Goldsmid Montefiore, The Bible for Home Reading with Comments and Reflections for the Use of Jewish Parents and Children
section 1.2|14 pages
Lives of Jesus
chapter 4|6 pages
[Edwin A. Abbott], Philochristus: Memoirs of a Disciple of the Lord
section 1.3|20 pages
Egyptology
chapter 5|8 pages
Samuel Sharpe, Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity with Their Influence on the Opinions of Modern Christendom
chapter 6|7 pages
Harriet Martineau, Eastern Life Past and Present
part 2|52 pages
Scientific Approaches
section 2.1|12 pages
The Secularisation of Wonder
chapter 7|3 pages
Robert Lewins, Humanism Versus Theism; or Solipsism (Egoism) = Atheism. In a Series of Letters by Robert Lewins M.D.
chapter 8|1 pages
Constance C. W. Naden, Untitled Notebook [1878–79]
chapter 9|2 pages
Constance C. W. Naden, ‘Starlight. I’ and ‘Starlight. II’
chapter 10|2 pages
Constance C. W. Naden, ‘The Brain Theory of Mind and Matter’
section 2.2|19 pages
The Roots of Faith
chapter 11|3 pages
Edward Clodd, The Story of Creation: A Plain Account of Evolution
chapter 12|3 pages
Francis Galton, Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Developments
section 2.3|18 pages
Changing Minds
chapter 14|7 pages
Richard Carlile, An Address to Men of Science
chapter 15|5 pages
William Winwood Reade, The Outcast
chapter 16|2 pages
John W. Overton, Saul of Mitre Court; Being Extracts From The Papers of Mr Gadshill
part 3|113 pages
Esotericism
section 3.1|39 pages
Spiritualism
chapter 17|5 pages
H. [Anna Mary Howitt], Glimpses of a Brighter Land
chapter 18|20 pages
W. T. Stead, ‘Borderlanders of the Bible: the Prophet Elijah’
chapter 19|4 pages
Alfred Russel Wallace, ‘The “Journal of Science” on Spiritualism’
chapter 20|6 pages
Frederick F. Cook, ‘The Harmony of Spiritualism and Science: A Rejoinder to Mr. Alfred Russel Wallace, LL.D.’
section 3.2|36 pages
Theosophy
chapter 21|12 pages
H. P. Blavatsky, The Key to Theosophy: Being a Clear Exposition, in the form of Question and Answer, of the Ethics, Science, and Philosophy for the Study of Which the Theosophical Society Has Been Founded
chapter 22|9 pages
Libra [Susan E. Gay], ‘Womanhood From the Theosophical Point of View’
chapter 23|10 pages
Mohini M. Chatterji, ‘On the Higher Aspect of Theosophic Studies’
section 3.3|24 pages
Esoteric Christianity
chapter 24|4 pages
Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, The Perfect Way; or, The Finding of Christ
chapter 25|6 pages
Alice Oliphant and Laurence Oliphant, Sympneumata, Or Evolutionary Forces Now Active in Man
chapter 26|9 pages
Marie Corelli [Mary Mackay], The Romance of Two Worlds
section 3.4|11 pages
New Thought
chapter 27|3 pages
Frances Lord, Christian Science Healing: its Principles and Practice
chapter 28|4 pages
Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Dawn of a To-Morrow
part 4|84 pages
Comparative and Universal Religion
section 4.1|18 pages
Anagārika Dharmapāla and Modern Buddhism
chapter 29|11 pages
T.W. Rhys Davids, ‘What Has Buddhism Derived From Christianity?’
chapter 30|3 pages
AnagĀRika DharmapĀLa, ‘Points of Resemblance and Difference Between Christianity and Buddhism’
section 4.2|39 pages
Keshub Chunder Sen and the New Dispensation
chapter 31|14 pages
Sophia Dobson Collet, Indian Theism and its Relation to Christianity
chapter 32|20 pages
Keshub Chunder Sen, We the Apostles of the New Dispensation
section 4.3|24 pages
Oswald Simon and the Universal Jewish Theistic Church
chapter 33|12 pages
Oswald John Simon, ‘The Mission of Judaism’
chapter 34|7 pages
H. Adler, Sylvie D’Avigdor, C[Laude] G[Oldsmid] Montefiore, James Martineau, Anna Swanwick and Charles Voysey, Responses to ‘The Mission of Judaism’
part 5|86 pages
Freethought
section 5.1|16 pages
New Theistic Directions
chapter 36|6 pages
Sara S. Hennell, Extract From Present Religion: as A Faith Owning Fellowship with Thought
section 5.2|14 pages
Owenism
chapter 38|2 pages
Anon., ‘The Religion of the Millennium’
chapter 39|4 pages
Emma Martin, Religion Superseded, or The Moral Code of Nature Sufficient for the Guidance of Man
chapter 40|4 pages
Thomas Frost, Forty Years’ Recollections: Literary and Political
section 5.3|20 pages
Agnosticism
section 5.4|13 pages
Atheism
chapter 42|2 pages
Harriet Law, ‘A Few Words to Freethinkers’
chapter 43|5 pages
Saladin [W. Stewart Ross], God and His Book
chapter 44|2 pages
Daniel Chatterton, ‘Where are You Going to When You Die?’
section 5.5|20 pages
Secular Gatherings