Organized Freethought: The Religion of Unbelief in Victorian England

ISBN-13: 9781138071339 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 268 str.

Shirley A. Mullen

Opis

This title, first published in 1987, explores the phenomenon of militant freethought among England’s working classes from 1840-1870. In particular, it is an effort to explain the peculiarly theological and evangelistic overtones of much Victorian working class radicalism, and the resulting emergence of a Victorian religion of atheism. This title will be of interest to students of nineteenth-century religious and social history.

Spis treści

Introduction: Organized Freethought in Summary and in Context;  1. Child as Father of the Man  2. Orthodoxy: Immoral and Untrue  3. Personalities, Posturing, and Principles  4. Choosing a Creed and a Cause  5. Orthodoxy "Out-Orthodoxed";  Conclusion;  Appendix;  Bibliography;  Index