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Auteur(s) : Larsen, Timothy (1967-....)
Titre(s) : A people of one book [Texte imprimé] : the Bible and the Victorians / Timothy Larsen
Publication : Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011
Description matérielle : 326 p. ; 24 cm
Comprend : Anglo-Catholics : E.B. Pusey and Holy Scripture ; Roman Catholics : Nicholas Wiseman
and Sacred Scripture ; Atheists : Charles Bradlaugh, Annie Besant, and 'this indictable
book' ; Methodist and Holiness : Catherine Booth, William Cooke, and the Scriptures
; Liberal Anglicans : Florence Nightingale and the Bible ; Unitarians : Mary Carpenter
and the Sacred Writings ; Quakers : Elizabeth Fry and 'Reading' ; Agnostics : T.H.
Huxley and bibliolatry ; Evangelical Anglicans : Josephine Butler and the Word of
God ; Orthodox Old Dissent : C.H. Spurgeon and 'The Book' ; Conclusion : Spiritualism,
Judaism, and the Brethren : A people of one book.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-313) and index
The scripture-saturated culture of nineteenth-century England is displayed by Timothy
Larsen in a series of lively case studies of representative figures ranging from the
Quaker prison reformer Elizabeth Fry to the liberal Anglican pioneer of nursing Florence
Nightingale to the Baptist preacher C. H. Spurgeon to the Jewish author Grace Aguilar.
Even the agnostic man of science T. H. Huxley and the atheist leaders Charles Bradlaugh
and Annie Besant were thoroughly and profoundly preoccupied with the Bible. Serving
as a tour of the diversity and variety of nineteenth-century views, Larsen's study
presents the distinctive beliefs and practices of all the major Victorian religious
and sceptical traditions from Anglo-Catholics to the Salvation Army to Spiritualism,
while simultaneously drawing out their common, shared culture as a people of one book.
--from publisher description
Sujet(s) : Bible -- Influence -- 19e siècle
Histoire religieuse -- Grande-Bretagne -- 19e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780199570096 (hbk.). - ISBN 0199570094
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb426891675
Notice n° :
FRBNF42689167
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