Spirit Matters explores the heterodox and unorthodox religions and
spiritualities that arose in Victorian Britain as a result of the
faltering of Christian faith in the face of modernity, the rise of
the truth-telling authority of science, and the first full exposure
of the West to non-Christian religions. J. Jeffrey Franklin
investigates the diversity of ways that spiritual seekers struggled
to maintain faith or to create new faiths by reconciling elements
of the Judeo-Christian heritage with Spiritualism, Buddhism,
occultism, and scientific naturalism. Spirit Matters covers a range
of scenarios from the Victorian hearth and the state-Church altar
to the frontiers of empire in Buddhist countries and Egyptian
crypts. Franklin reveals how this diversity of elements provided
the materials for the formation of new hybrid religions and the
emergence in the 20th century of New Age spiritualities. Franklin
investigates a broad spectrum of experiences through a series of
representative case studies that together trace the development of
unorthodox religious and spiritual discourses. The ideas and events
discussed by Franklin through these case studies were considered
outside the domain of orthodox religion yet still religious or
spiritual rather than atheistic or materialistic. Among the
works—obscure and canonical—he analyzes are Edward
Bulwer-Lytton’s Zanoni and A Strange Story; Forest Life in
Ceylon, by William Knighton; Anthony Trollope’s The Vicar of
Bullhampton; Anna Leonowens’s The English Governess at the
Siamese Court; Literature and Dogma, by Matthew Arnold; and Bram
Stoker’s Dracula.
General
| Imprint: |
Cornell University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
March 2018 |
| First published: |
2018 |
| Authors: |
J.Jeffrey Franklin
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 27mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
288 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-5017-1544-0 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-5017-1544-5 |
| Barcode: |
9781501715440 |
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