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The science of religion in Britain, 1860-1915 / Marjorie Wheeler-Barclay.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wheeler-Barclay, Marjorie, 1952-
- Series:
- Victorian literature and culture series.
- Victorian literature and culture series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion--Study and teaching--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Religion.
- Religion historians--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Religion historians.
- Religion--Study and teaching--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Religion historians--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (327 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Far from promoting an anti-religious or materialistic agenda, the science of religion opened up cultural space for an exploration of religion that was not constricted by the terms of contemporary conflicts over Darwin and the Bible and that made it possible to think in new and more flexible ways about the very definition of religion.
- Contents:
- The study of religion before 1860
- Friedrich Max Muller : the annunciation of a new science
- Edward B. Tylor : the forging of an anthropological orthodoxy
- Andrew Lang : the antipositivist critique
- William Robertson Smith : a new departure
- James G. Frazer : the orthodoxy monumentalized
- Jane Ellen Harrison : the redefinition of religion.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p.289-304) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613585882
- 9781280490651
- 1280490659
- 9780813930510
- 0813930510
- OCLC:
- 755618478
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