Reinventing Christianity : nineteenth-century contexts / edited by Linda Woodhead.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Woodhead, Linda.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church history--19th century.

Church history.

Physical Description:

xi, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, [2001]

Contents:

Part 1 Varieties

I Transcendent Christianity

1. Evangelical Certainties: Charles Spurgeon and the Sermon as Crisis Literature / Andrew Tate 27

2. Fortress Catholicism: The Art of Ultramontanism at Notre Dame de Fourviere / Nancy Davenport 37

3. Anglican Controversies: Debating Private Confession / Anne Hartman 67

II Liberal Christianity and Alternative Spiritualities

4. The World's Parliament of Religions and the Rise of Alternative Spirituality / Linda Woodhead 81

5. The Swedenborgian Church in England / Ian Sellers 97

6. Transcendentalists and Catholic Converts in Emerson's America / Shannon Cate 105

Part 2 Negotiations

III Christianity and Literature

7. Rewriting Genesis: The Nineteenth-Century Roots of D.H. Lawrence's Religion / Terence R. Wright 119

8. Wordsworth and the Sacralization of Place / Deeanne Westbrook 127

9. Reactionary and Romantic: Joseph de Maistre and Shelley / Arthur Bradley 139

10. The Religion of Thomas Carlyle / Trevor Hogan 149

IV Christianity and Gender

11. The Feminization of Piety in Nineteenth-Century Art / Jane Kristof 165

12. Women's Theology and the British Periodical Press / Julie Melnyk 191

13. The Feminist Theology of Florence Nightingale / Hilary Fraser, Victoria Burrows 199

14. Elizabeth Gaskell, Gender and the Apocalypse / Robert M. Kachur 211

V Christianity and Science

15. Science and Secularization / John Hedley Brooke 229

16. Contextualising the 'War' between Science and Religion / Gowan Dawson 239

17. Philip Gosse and the Varieties of Natural Theology / Jonathan Smith 251.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754616509

OCLC:

45439332