Ramsay Cook

The Regenerators, 2nd Edition

Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Regenerators explores the nature of social criticism and its complex ties to the religious thinking of the day, showing how the path blazed by nineteenth-century religious liberals led not to the Kingdom of God on earth, but, ironically, to the secular city.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781442629196
• ISBN-10: 1442629193
• Artikelnr.: 43953692

Autorenporträt

Ramsay Cook is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at York University and the former general editor of The Dictionary of Canadian Biography.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to the Second Edition by Donald Wright
 
1. Introduction
2. The Roots of Modernism: Darwinism and the Higher Critics
3. The Anxieties of a Moral Interregnum
4. Positivism, Secular Thought, and the Religion of Humanity
5. Spiritualism, Science of the Earthly Paradise
6. Richard Maurice Bucke: Religious Heresiarch and Utopian
7. Toward a Christian Political Economy
8. ‘A Republic of God, a Christian Republic’
9. ‘The New City of Friends’: Evolution, Theosophy, and Socialism