Cultivating belief : Victorian anthropology, liberal aesthetics, and the secular imagination / Sebastian Lecourt. [electronic resource]

Author/Creator:

Lecourt, Sebastian, author.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Format/Description:

Book
1 online resource

Subjects:

Religion and sociology -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.

Summary:

This title explores how a group of Victorian literary writers - including George Eliot, Walter Pater, and Matthew Arnold - became interested in the emerging anthropology of religion, which sought to explain religion not in terms of doctrines or beliefs but as a function of race or ethnicity.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2018.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 19, 2018).

ISBN:

0-19-185033-0

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