Nineteenth-Century Religious Thought in the West: Volume 3

Nineteenth-Century Religious Thought in the West: Volume 3
Author: Ninian Smart
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1988-07-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780521359665

The successful three volumes of Nineteenth Century Religious Thought in the West provide a fresh appraisal of the most important thinkers of that time. Soames essays centre on major figures of the period; others cover topics, trends and schools of thought between the French Revolution and the First World War.

Nineteenth-Century Religious Thought in the West: Volume 3

Nineteenth-Century Religious Thought in the West: Volume 3
Author: Ninian Smart
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1988-07-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780521359665

The successful three volumes of Nineteenth Century Religious Thought in the West provide a fresh appraisal of the most important thinkers of that time. Soames essays centre on major figures of the period; others cover topics, trends and schools of thought between the French Revolution and the First World War.

Religion in Victorian Britain

Religion in Victorian Britain
Author: Gerald Parsons
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1988
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780719051845

Provides an expansion of the first four volumes, containing both specially written essays and a related compilation of primary sources, drawn from the writings of the day. The text explores the wider context of religion in Victorian Britain, both in relation to the development of the Empire and its consequences. The introduction sets the scene and also provides an overview of scholarship on Victorian religion in the years since the first four volumes were published in 1988.

Christianity and Western Thought

Christianity and Western Thought
Author: Steve Wilkens
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2010-07-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830839526

In this second of three volumes which survey the dynamic interplay of Christianity and Western thought from the earliest centuries through the twentieth century, Steve Wilkens and Alan Padgett tell the story of the monumental changes of the nineteenth century.

On Pagans, Jews, and Christians

On Pagans, Jews, and Christians
Author: Arnaldo Momigliano
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 1987-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780819562180

An analysis of the relationships between pagan Greece, imperial Rome, Judaism, and Christianity.

Nineteenth-Century Philosophy of Religion

Nineteenth-Century Philosophy of Religion
Author: Graham Oppy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2014-09-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1317546423

The nineteenth century was a turbulent period in the history of the philosophical scrutiny of religion. Major scholars - such as Hegel, Fichte, Schelling, Newman, Caird and Royce - sought to construct systematic responses to the Enlightenment critiques of religion carried out by Spinoza and Hume. At the same time, new critiques of religion were launched by philosophers such as Schopenhauer and Nietzsche and by scholars engaged in textual criticism, such as Schleiermacher and Dilthey. Over the course of the century, the work of Marx, Freud, Darwin and Durkheim brought the revolutionary perspectives of political economy, psychoanalysis, evolutionary theory and anthropology to bear on both religion and its study. These challenges played a major role in the shaping of twentieth-century philosophical thought about religion. "Nineteenth-Century Philosophy of Religion" will be of interest to scholars and students of Philosophy and Religion, and will serve as an authoritative guide for all who are interested in the debates that took place in this seminal period in the history of philosophical thinking about religion.

Rediscovering E.R. Dodds

Rediscovering E.R. Dodds
Author: Christopher Stray
Publisher:
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2019
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0198777361

Famous for his visionary book, 'The Greeks and the Irrational' (1951), E.R. Dodds was not only a remarkable classical scholar, but also a poet with extensive links to 20th-century English and Irish literary culture. This volume explores his life, career, and legacy, including a group of memoirs by some of his pupils and friends.

Beyond Enlightenment

Beyond Enlightenment
Author: Richard Cohen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2006-08-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1134192045

The vast majority of books on Buddhism describe the Buddha using the word enlightened, rather than awakened. This bias has resulted in Buddhism becoming generally perceived as the eponymous religion of enlightenment. Beyond Enlightenment is a sophisticated study of some of the underlying assumptions involved in the study of Buddhism (especially, but not exclusively, in the West). It investigates the tendency of most scholars to ground their study of Buddhism in these particular assumptions about the Buddha’s enlightenment and a particular understanding of religion, which is traced back through Western orientalists to the Enlightenment and the Protestant Reformation. Placing a distinct emphasis on Indian Buddhism, Richard Cohen adeptly creates a work that will appeal to those with an interest in Buddhism and India and also scholars of religion and history.

The Dawning of the Theosophical Movement

The Dawning of the Theosophical Movement
Author: Michael Gomes
Publisher: Quest Books
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1987-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780835606233

Historical researcher, Michael Gomes charts the dramatic origins of the theosophical movement, one of the most influential philosophical systems to arise during the last hundred years. In this skillfully woven story of the early years of theosophy, the author re-creates the key events involving Blavatsky, Olcott, and a small group of like-minded occultists. His account covers the publication of Blavatsky's "occult encyclopedia", Isis Unveiled, concluding with the pilgrimage to India by the "theosophical twins."