Religion and Irreligion in Victorian Society: Essays in Honor of R.K. WebbFirst published in 1992.This volume of eleven specially commissioned essays celebrates the work of Robert K. Webb, one of the foremost historians of modern Britain. The contributors, established scholars from Britain, Canada, Australia and the United States, address some of the central themes in the history of nineteenth-century religion, including evangelicalism and the culture of the market economy, religious issues in the liberal politics of the 1830s, the radical atheist Robert Taylor, Charles Darwin, the Victorian ideal of `manliness', nineteenth century images of Mary Magdalene, the Jews in Victorian society, colonialism, the role of women missionaries as models of female achievement, and spiritualism during the Great War. Together these essays make a significant contribution to the study of the role of religion in Victorian society. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
evangelical pastor as entrepreneur | 7 |
2 The Whigs and religious issues 18305 | 29 |
infidel preachers and radical theatricality in 1830s London | 51 |
Darwin and some contemporaries in the 1820s and 1830s | 68 |
5 Cultural pluralism and the Board of Deputies of British Jews | 85 |
6 The manliness of Christ | 102 |
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Religion and Irreligion in Victorian Society: Essays in Honor of R.K. Webb Richard W. Davis No preview available - 1992 |
Religion and Irreligion in Victorian Society: Essays in Honor of R. K. Webb R. W. Davis,R. J. Helmstadter No preview available - 2013 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Religion and Irreligion in Victorian Society: Essays in Honor of R.K. Webb |
| Author | Robert Kiefer Webb |
| Editors | Richard W. Davis, Richard J. Helmstadter |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Psychology Press, 1992 |
| ISBN | 0415076250, 9780415076258 |
| Length | 205 pages |
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