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Cultivating belief : Victorian anthropology, liberal aesthetics, and the secular imagination / Sebastian Lecourt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lecourt, Sebastian, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion and sociology--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Religion and sociology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- This title explores how a group of Victorian literary writers - including George Eliot, Walter Pater, and Matthew Arnold - became interested in the emerging anthropology of religion, which sought to explain religion not in terms of doctrines or beliefs but as a function of race or ethnicity.
- Notes:
- This edition previously issued in print: 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 19, 2018).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-254059-9
- 0-19-185033-0
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