Empire and Progress in the Victorian Secularist Movement

Empire and Progress in the Victorian Secularist Movement

Imagining a Secular World

Corbeil, Patrick J.

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

12/2022

188

Mole

Inglês

9783030852047

15 a 20 dias

266

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Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: "The assumption of an Indian or Egyptian Priest is just as good, to our thinking, as the assumption of a Christian Priest": Secularism and Comparative Religion, Imagining a Secular World.- Chapter 3: Grounding Non-Theological Morality: Secular Ethics and Human Progress.- Chapter 4: Sceptical Missionaries and Republican Internationalism.- Chapter 5: Secularism and the Limits of Universal Progress.- Chapter 6: Conclusion
Victorian era;British empire;atheism;secularization;freethinkers