Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion: Literary, Historical, and Religious Studies in Dialogue
Bringing together scholars from literary, historical, and religious studies,Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religioninterrogates the seemingly obvious category of “religion.” This collection argues that any application of religion engages in complex and relatively modern historical processes. In considering the various ways that nineteenth-century religion was constructed, commodified, and practiced, contributors to this volume “speak” to each other, finding interdisciplinary links and resonances across a range of texts and contexts.   The participle in its title—Constructing—acknowledges that any articulation of nineteenth-century religion is never just a work of the past: scholars also actively construct religion as their disciplinary assumptions (and indeed personal and lived investments) shape their research and findings. Constructing Nineteenth­Century Religion newly analyzes the diverse ways in which religion was debated and deployed in a wide range of nineteenth­century texts and contexts. While focusing primarily on nineteenth­century Britain, the collection also contributes to the increasingly transnational and transcultural outlook of postsecular studies, drawing connections between Britain and the United States, continental Europe, and colonial India.  
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Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion: Literary, Historical, and Religious Studies in Dialogue
Bringing together scholars from literary, historical, and religious studies,Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religioninterrogates the seemingly obvious category of “religion.” This collection argues that any application of religion engages in complex and relatively modern historical processes. In considering the various ways that nineteenth-century religion was constructed, commodified, and practiced, contributors to this volume “speak” to each other, finding interdisciplinary links and resonances across a range of texts and contexts.   The participle in its title—Constructing—acknowledges that any articulation of nineteenth-century religion is never just a work of the past: scholars also actively construct religion as their disciplinary assumptions (and indeed personal and lived investments) shape their research and findings. Constructing Nineteenth­Century Religion newly analyzes the diverse ways in which religion was debated and deployed in a wide range of nineteenth­century texts and contexts. While focusing primarily on nineteenth­century Britain, the collection also contributes to the increasingly transnational and transcultural outlook of postsecular studies, drawing connections between Britain and the United States, continental Europe, and colonial India.  
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Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion: Literary, Historical, and Religious Studies in Dialogue

Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion: Literary, Historical, and Religious Studies in Dialogue

Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion: Literary, Historical, and Religious Studies in Dialogue

Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion: Literary, Historical, and Religious Studies in Dialogue

Overview

Bringing together scholars from literary, historical, and religious studies,Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religioninterrogates the seemingly obvious category of “religion.” This collection argues that any application of religion engages in complex and relatively modern historical processes. In considering the various ways that nineteenth-century religion was constructed, commodified, and practiced, contributors to this volume “speak” to each other, finding interdisciplinary links and resonances across a range of texts and contexts.   The participle in its title—Constructing—acknowledges that any articulation of nineteenth-century religion is never just a work of the past: scholars also actively construct religion as their disciplinary assumptions (and indeed personal and lived investments) shape their research and findings. Constructing Nineteenth­Century Religion newly analyzes the diverse ways in which religion was debated and deployed in a wide range of nineteenth­century texts and contexts. While focusing primarily on nineteenth­century Britain, the collection also contributes to the increasingly transnational and transcultural outlook of postsecular studies, drawing connections between Britain and the United States, continental Europe, and colonial India.  

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780814255292
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Publication date: 04/02/2022
Series: Literature, Religion, & Postsecular Stud
Pages: 334
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Joshua King is Associate Professor at Baylor University and author of Imagined Spiritual Communities in Britain’s Age of Print (OSU Press, 2015). Winter Jade Werner is Assistant Professor at Wheaton College.
 

Table of Contents

Table of Contents   Acknowledgments   Illustrations   Introduction: Joshua King and Winter Jade Werner   Section I: Reforming Religion and the SecularChapter 1: Religion and the Secular State: Loisy’s Use of “Religion” Prior to his Excommunication Jeffrey L. Morrow Chapter 2: A Commonwealth of Affection: Modern Hinduism and the Cultural History of the Study of Religion J. Barton Scott Chapter 3: “God’s Insurrection”: Politics and Faith in the Revolutionary Sermons of Joseph Rayner Stephens Mike Sanders Chapter 4: George Jacob Holyoake, Secularism, and Constructing “Religion” as an Anachronistic Repressor             David Nash Chapter 5: Karl Marx and the Invention of the Secular            Dominic Erdozain   Section II: Religion and the Materialities and Practices of ReadingChapter 6: From Treasures to Trash, or, the Real History of “Family Bibles”            Mary Wilson Carpenter Chapter 7: Rereading Queen Victoria’s Religion            Michael Ledger-Lomas Chapter 8: Jewish Women’s Writing as a New Category of Affect            Richa Dwor Chapter 9: Hybridous Monsters: Constructing “Religion” and “the Novel” in the Early Nineteenth Century            Miriam Elizabeth Burstein Chapter 10: Material Religion: C. H. Spurgeon and the “Battle of the Styles” in Victorian Church Architecture            Dominic Janes Chapter 11: Wilde’s Uses of Religion            Mark Knight   Section III: Religion and Poetics in Postsecular Literary StudiesChapter 12: Reading Psalms in Nineteenth-Century England: The Contact Zone of Jewish-Christian Scriptural Relations            Cynthia Scheinberg Chapter 13: Postsecular English Studies and Romantic Cults of Authorship             Charles LaPorte Chapter 14: Theologies of Inspiration: William Blake and Gerard Manley Hopkins            Michael D. Hurley Chapter 15: William Blake, the Secularization of Religious Categories, and the History of Imagination            Peter Otto   Contributors                            
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