Author: William C. Lubenow
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783277971
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Examines the entanglement of secularity and liberality in the foundation of the modern state in Britain. "Modern" Britain emerged from the outcome of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. The rather standard Whig account of the long nineteenth century is one of growing stability, progress and improvement. And yet nothing was preordained or inevitable about the period's stability. Ruling elites felt the constant anxieties of revolutionary terrorism. As Lubenow argues, it was a period of disorganization seeking organization. The great nineteenth-century reform acts against religious monopoly were aspects of this process of political organization. While religion did not disappear, these political actions gradually changed the constitutional position of religion. As a result, a political vacuum was created which was then filled by a secular "clerisy". These "fit and proper persons", educated in the reformed universities, qualified by success in competitive examinations, began to fill positions in the Civil Service and in the professions. The effect was to replace the eighteenth-century system of confessional loyalties with a liberal political culture based on merit. Lubenow's latest study examines the work of these intertwining nineteenth-century secular-liberal processes. Steeped deeply in archival research, this book considers biographical characteristics such as education, political connections and social associations, but it is equally conceptually guided by categories such as liberalism and secularism. It fills an important gap in the political history of nineteenth-century British liberalism by taking up the question of entanglement of secularity and liberality in the foundation of the modern state.
Secular Foundations of the Liberal State in Victorian Britain
Author: William C. Lubenow
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783277971
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Examines the entanglement of secularity and liberality in the foundation of the modern state in Britain. "Modern" Britain emerged from the outcome of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. The rather standard Whig account of the long nineteenth century is one of growing stability, progress and improvement. And yet nothing was preordained or inevitable about the period's stability. Ruling elites felt the constant anxieties of revolutionary terrorism. As Lubenow argues, it was a period of disorganization seeking organization. The great nineteenth-century reform acts against religious monopoly were aspects of this process of political organization. While religion did not disappear, these political actions gradually changed the constitutional position of religion. As a result, a political vacuum was created which was then filled by a secular "clerisy". These "fit and proper persons", educated in the reformed universities, qualified by success in competitive examinations, began to fill positions in the Civil Service and in the professions. The effect was to replace the eighteenth-century system of confessional loyalties with a liberal political culture based on merit. Lubenow's latest study examines the work of these intertwining nineteenth-century secular-liberal processes. Steeped deeply in archival research, this book considers biographical characteristics such as education, political connections and social associations, but it is equally conceptually guided by categories such as liberalism and secularism. It fills an important gap in the political history of nineteenth-century British liberalism by taking up the question of entanglement of secularity and liberality in the foundation of the modern state.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783277971
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Examines the entanglement of secularity and liberality in the foundation of the modern state in Britain. "Modern" Britain emerged from the outcome of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. The rather standard Whig account of the long nineteenth century is one of growing stability, progress and improvement. And yet nothing was preordained or inevitable about the period's stability. Ruling elites felt the constant anxieties of revolutionary terrorism. As Lubenow argues, it was a period of disorganization seeking organization. The great nineteenth-century reform acts against religious monopoly were aspects of this process of political organization. While religion did not disappear, these political actions gradually changed the constitutional position of religion. As a result, a political vacuum was created which was then filled by a secular "clerisy". These "fit and proper persons", educated in the reformed universities, qualified by success in competitive examinations, began to fill positions in the Civil Service and in the professions. The effect was to replace the eighteenth-century system of confessional loyalties with a liberal political culture based on merit. Lubenow's latest study examines the work of these intertwining nineteenth-century secular-liberal processes. Steeped deeply in archival research, this book considers biographical characteristics such as education, political connections and social associations, but it is equally conceptually guided by categories such as liberalism and secularism. It fills an important gap in the political history of nineteenth-century British liberalism by taking up the question of entanglement of secularity and liberality in the foundation of the modern state.
Music and Victorian Liberalism
Author: Sarah Collins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108480055
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Examines the interaction between music and liberal discourses in Victorian Britain, revealing the close interdependence of political and aesthetic practices.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108480055
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Examines the interaction between music and liberal discourses in Victorian Britain, revealing the close interdependence of political and aesthetic practices.
Victorian Infidels
Author: Edward Royle
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719005572
Category : Secularism
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719005572
Category : Secularism
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Learned Lives in England, 1900-1950
Author: William C. Lubenow
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783275502
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
If objectivity was the great discovery of the nineteenth century, uncertainty was the great discovery of the twentieth century.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783275502
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
If objectivity was the great discovery of the nineteenth century, uncertainty was the great discovery of the twentieth century.
Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion
Author: Joshua King
Publisher: Literature, Religion, & Postse
ISBN: 9780814213971
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Examines the ways in which religion was constructed as a category and region of experience in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
Publisher: Literature, Religion, & Postse
ISBN: 9780814213971
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Examines the ways in which religion was constructed as a category and region of experience in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
Australia's Secular Foundations
Author: Malcolm Wood
Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing
ISBN: 1925333329
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Explaining how Australia’s secular society derives from its colonial past, this book examines: • the environmental and social context that encouraged godlessness, including the convict system, the bush, materialism and cultural development; • religious practice and sectarianism; • the state’s policy of denominational even-handedness to ensure social harmony; • the challenges to faith that science and critical biblical scholarship posed; and • churchmen’s attempts to foist a moral code on society, and their ambivalent attitudes to society’s poor and distressed.
Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing
ISBN: 1925333329
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Explaining how Australia’s secular society derives from its colonial past, this book examines: • the environmental and social context that encouraged godlessness, including the convict system, the bush, materialism and cultural development; • religious practice and sectarianism; • the state’s policy of denominational even-handedness to ensure social harmony; • the challenges to faith that science and critical biblical scholarship posed; and • churchmen’s attempts to foist a moral code on society, and their ambivalent attitudes to society’s poor and distressed.
'Only Connect'
Author: William C. Lubenow
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783270462
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
In nineteenth-century Britain, learned societies and clubs became contested sites in which a new kind of identity was created: the charisma and persona of the scholar, of the intellectual.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783270462
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
In nineteenth-century Britain, learned societies and clubs became contested sites in which a new kind of identity was created: the charisma and persona of the scholar, of the intellectual.
Religious Commitment and Secular Reason
Author: Robert Audi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139449338
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Many religious people are alarmed about features of the current age - violence in the media, a pervasive hedonism, a marginalization of religion, and widespread abortion. These concerns influence politics, but just as there should be a separation between church and state, so should there be a balance between religious commitments and secular arguments calling for social reforms. Robert Audi offers a principle of secular rationale, which does not exclude religious grounds for action but which rules out restricting freedom except on grounds that any rational citizen would accept. The book describes the essential commitments of free democracy, explains how religious and secular moral considerations can be integrated to facilitate co-operation in a world of religious pluralism, and proposes ideals of civic virtue that express the mutual respect on which democracy depends. Audi offers a balanced and sophisticated treatment of the relations between religion and politics in a modern, secular society.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139449338
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Many religious people are alarmed about features of the current age - violence in the media, a pervasive hedonism, a marginalization of religion, and widespread abortion. These concerns influence politics, but just as there should be a separation between church and state, so should there be a balance between religious commitments and secular arguments calling for social reforms. Robert Audi offers a principle of secular rationale, which does not exclude religious grounds for action but which rules out restricting freedom except on grounds that any rational citizen would accept. The book describes the essential commitments of free democracy, explains how religious and secular moral considerations can be integrated to facilitate co-operation in a world of religious pluralism, and proposes ideals of civic virtue that express the mutual respect on which democracy depends. Audi offers a balanced and sophisticated treatment of the relations between religion and politics in a modern, secular society.
Liberty and Liberalism
Author: Bruce Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain
Author: Simon Gunn
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520289536
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
In this wide-ranging volume, leading scholars across several disciplines--history, literature, sociology, and cultural studies--investigate the nature of liberalism and modernity in imperial Britain since the eighteenth century. They show how Britain's liberal version of modernity (of capitalism, democracy, and imperialism) was the product of a peculiar set of historical circumstances that continues to haunt our neoliberal present.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520289536
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
In this wide-ranging volume, leading scholars across several disciplines--history, literature, sociology, and cultural studies--investigate the nature of liberalism and modernity in imperial Britain since the eighteenth century. They show how Britain's liberal version of modernity (of capitalism, democracy, and imperialism) was the product of a peculiar set of historical circumstances that continues to haunt our neoliberal present.