The Resource Cultivating belief : Victorian anthropology, liberal aesthetics, and the secular imagination, Sebastian Lecourt
Cultivating belief : Victorian anthropology, liberal aesthetics, and the secular imagination, Sebastian Lecourt
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- Summary
- "This book explores how a group of Victorian liberal writers that included George Eliot, Walter Pater, and Matthew Arnold became attracted to new theories of religion as a function of race and ethnicity. Since the early modern period, British liberals had typically constructed religion as a zone of personal belief that defined modern individuality and interiority. During the 1860s, however, Eliot, Arnold, and other literary liberals began to claim that religion could actually do the most for the modern self when it came as a kind of involuntary inheritance. Stimulated by the emerging science of anthropology, they imagined that religious experiences embedded in race or ethnicity could render the self heterogeneous, while the individual who insisted upon selecting his or her own beliefs would become narrow and parochial." --
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- vii, 229 pages
- Note
- Based on author's thesis (doctoral)--Yale University
- Contents
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- Introduction: Victorian anthropology and Victorian secularity
- The Rubicon of language: Max Müller, evangelical anthropology, and the history of true religion
- Arnoldian secularism: race and political theology from Celtic Literature to Literature and Dogma
- History's second-hand bookshop: self-cultivation and scripturality in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda and The Spanish Gypsy
- A more liberal surrender: aestheticism, asceticism, and Walter Pater's erotics of conversion
- National supernaturalism: Andrew Lang, world literature, and the limits of eclecticism
- Coda: aesthetic secularism
- Isbn
- 9780198812494
- Label
- Cultivating belief : Victorian anthropology, liberal aesthetics, and the secular imagination
- Title
- Cultivating belief
- Title remainder
- Victorian anthropology, liberal aesthetics, and the secular imagination
- Statement of responsibility
- Sebastian Lecourt
- Title variation
- Victorian anthropology, liberal aesthetics, and the secular imagination
- Subject
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- Anthropology of religion
- Anthropology of religion -- England -- History -- 19th century
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- England
- England
- English literature
- English literature
- English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Ethnicity -- Religious aspects
- Ethnicity -- Religious aspects
- Ethnicity -- Religious aspects | History -- 19th century
- Great Britain
- Great Britain
- History
- History
- Individualism -- Great Britain -- 19th century -- Religious aspects
- Individualism -- Religious aspects
- 1800-1899
- Liberalism -- Religious aspects
- Liberalism -- Religious aspects
- Liberalism -- Religious aspects | History -- 19th century
- Race -- Religious aspects
- Race -- Religious aspects
- Race -- Religious aspects | History -- 19th century
- Religion in literature
- Religion in literature
- Religion in literature -- History -- 19th century
- Romanticism
- Romanticism
- Romanticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Secularism
- Secularism
- Secularism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Individualism -- Religious aspects
- Anthropology of religion
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "This book explores how a group of Victorian liberal writers that included George Eliot, Walter Pater, and Matthew Arnold became attracted to new theories of religion as a function of race and ethnicity. Since the early modern period, British liberals had typically constructed religion as a zone of personal belief that defined modern individuality and interiority. During the 1860s, however, Eliot, Arnold, and other literary liberals began to claim that religion could actually do the most for the modern self when it came as a kind of involuntary inheritance. Stimulated by the emerging science of anthropology, they imagined that religious experiences embedded in race or ethnicity could render the self heterogeneous, while the individual who insisted upon selecting his or her own beliefs would become narrow and parochial." --
- Assigning source
- From publisher's website
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Lecourt, Sebastian
- Dewey number
- 820.9/38209034
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR468.R44
- LC item number
- L43 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Religion in literature
- English literature
- Anthropology of religion
- Race
- Ethnicity
- Secularism
- Liberalism
- Individualism
- Romanticism
- Anthropology of religion
- English literature
- Ethnicity
- Individualism
- Liberalism
- Race
- Religion in literature
- Romanticism
- Secularism
- England
- Great Britain
- Label
- Cultivating belief : Victorian anthropology, liberal aesthetics, and the secular imagination, Sebastian Lecourt
- Note
- Based on author's thesis (doctoral)--Yale University
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-222) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: Victorian anthropology and Victorian secularity -- The Rubicon of language: Max Müller, evangelical anthropology, and the history of true religion -- Arnoldian secularism: race and political theology from Celtic Literature to Literature and Dogma -- History's second-hand bookshop: self-cultivation and scripturality in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda and The Spanish Gypsy -- A more liberal surrender: aestheticism, asceticism, and Walter Pater's erotics of conversion -- National supernaturalism: Andrew Lang, world literature, and the limits of eclecticism -- Coda: aesthetic secularism
- Control code
- 1002112954
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- vii, 229 pages
- Isbn
- 9780198812494
- Lccn
- 2017954408
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 14764051
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1002112954
- Label
- Cultivating belief : Victorian anthropology, liberal aesthetics, and the secular imagination, Sebastian Lecourt
- Note
- Based on author's thesis (doctoral)--Yale University
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-222) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: Victorian anthropology and Victorian secularity -- The Rubicon of language: Max Müller, evangelical anthropology, and the history of true religion -- Arnoldian secularism: race and political theology from Celtic Literature to Literature and Dogma -- History's second-hand bookshop: self-cultivation and scripturality in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda and The Spanish Gypsy -- A more liberal surrender: aestheticism, asceticism, and Walter Pater's erotics of conversion -- National supernaturalism: Andrew Lang, world literature, and the limits of eclecticism -- Coda: aesthetic secularism
- Control code
- 1002112954
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- vii, 229 pages
- Isbn
- 9780198812494
- Lccn
- 2017954408
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 14764051
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1002112954
Subject
- Anthropology of religion
- Anthropology of religion -- England -- History -- 19th century
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- England
- England
- English literature
- English literature
- English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Ethnicity -- Religious aspects
- Ethnicity -- Religious aspects
- Ethnicity -- Religious aspects | History -- 19th century
- Great Britain
- Great Britain
- History
- History
- Individualism -- Great Britain -- 19th century -- Religious aspects
- Individualism -- Religious aspects
- 1800-1899
- Liberalism -- Religious aspects
- Liberalism -- Religious aspects
- Liberalism -- Religious aspects | History -- 19th century
- Race -- Religious aspects
- Race -- Religious aspects
- Race -- Religious aspects | History -- 19th century
- Religion in literature
- Religion in literature
- Religion in literature -- History -- 19th century
- Romanticism
- Romanticism
- Romanticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Secularism
- Secularism
- Secularism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
- Individualism -- Religious aspects
- Anthropology of religion
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