Empire and Progress in the Victorian Secularist Movement: Imagining a Secular World
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- Holyoake and Secularism -- Chapter Descriptions -- 2 "The Assumption of an Indian or Egyptian Priest is just as Good, to Our Thinking, as the Assumption of a Christian Priest": Secularism and Comparative Religion, Imagining a Secul...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing AG
2022
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| In: | Year: 2022 |
| Series/Journal: | Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700-2000 Ser.
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Great Britain
/ Culture
/ Imperialism
/ Progress idea
/ Secularism
/ History 1837-1901
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| Further subjects: | B
Great Britain
B Electronic books B Secularism |
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| Summary: | Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- Holyoake and Secularism -- Chapter Descriptions -- 2 "The Assumption of an Indian or Egyptian Priest is just as Good, to Our Thinking, as the Assumption of a Christian Priest": Secularism and Comparative Religion, Imagining a Secular World -- Comparative Religion: Enlightenment Precursors and Victorian Parallels -- Freethought and the Historicizing of Christianity -- Judaism, Freethought and Anti-Semitism -- Islam, Religious Violence, and Secularization -- 3 Grounding Non-theological Morality: Secular Ethics and Human Progress -- A Moral Society of Atheists -- Articulating the Grounds of Secular Morality -- Eastern "Secularism" and Grounding Morality in Nature -- Unity and Disunity in Secular Ethical Discourse -- Conclusion -- 4 Sceptical Missionaries and Republican Internationalism -- Secular Internationalism -- The Secularist View of India -- Secularists and Missionaries -- The Spectre of Violence and the Importance of Secularism to India -- The Oath and Education -- 5 Secularism and the Limits of Universal Progress -- New Zealand, Emigration, and Colonial Secularism -- Race, Humanitarianism, and the Limits of Improvement -- Missionaries, Secularists, and Ideas of Indigenous Extinction -- Conclusion -- 6 Conclusion -- Index. |
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| ISBN: | 3030852024 |