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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Alternative belief systems > Syncretist & eclectic religions & belief systems > General
This book provides a comparative analysis of cosmopolitan
(esoteric) religious movements, such as Theosophy, Groupe
Independent des Etudes Esoteriques, Anthroposophy, and Monism, in
England, France, Germany, and India during the late
nineteenth-century to the interwar years. Despite their diversity,
these factions manifested a set of common
features-anti-materialism, embrace of Darwinian evolution, and a
belief in universal spirituality-that coalesced in a transnational
field of analogous cosmopolitan spiritual affinities. Yet, in each
of their geopolitical locations these groups developed vastly
different interpretations and applications of their common
spiritual tenets. This book explores how such religious innovation
intersected with the social (labor and economic renewal), cultural
(education and religious innovation) and political (Empire and
anti-colonial) dynamics in these vastly different national domains.
Ultimately, it illustrates how an innovative religious discourse
converged with the secular world and became applied to envision a
new social order-to spiritually re-engineer the world.
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Science and Catholicism in Argentina (1750-1960) is the first
comprehensive study on the relationship between science and
religion in a Spanish-speaking country with a Catholic majority and
a "Latin" pattern of secularisation. The text takes the reader from
Jesuit missionary science in colonial times, through the
conflict-ridden 19th century, to the Catholic revival of the 1930s
in Argentina. The diverse interactions between science and religion
revealed in this analysis can be organised in terms of their
dynamic of secularisation. The indissoluble identification of
science and the secular, which operated at rhetorical and
institutional levels among the liberal elite and the socialists in
the 19th century, lost part of its force with the emergence of
Catholic scientists in the course of the 20th century. In agreement
with current views that deny science the role as the driving force
of secularisation, this historical study concludes that it was the
process of secularisation that shaped the interplay between
religion and science, not the other way around.
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