Dominic Green

The Religious Revolution (eBook, ePUB)

The Birth of Modern Spirituality, 1848-1898

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Produktbeschreibung

"An incisive study of the Western world's shift from institutional religion to more personal beliefs in the second half of the 19th century . . . This is intellectual history at its most comprehensive and convincing." -Publishers Weekly, starred review The late nineteenth century was an age of grand ideas and great expectations fueled by rapid scientific and technological innovation. In Europe, the ancient authority of church and crown was overthrown for the volatile gambles of democracy and the capitalist market. If it was an age that claimed to liberate women, slaves, and serfs, it also harnessed children to its factories and subjected entire peoples to its empires. Amid this tumult, another sea change was underway: the religious revolution. In The Religious Revolution, Dominic Green charts this profound cultural and political shift, taking us on a whirlwind journey through the lives and ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman; of Éliphas Lévi and Helena Blavatsky; of Wagner and Nietzsche; of Marx, Darwin, and Gandhi. Challenged by the industrialization, globalization, and political unrest of their times, these figures found themselves connecting with the religious impulse in surprising new ways, inspiring others to move away from the strictures of religion and toward the thrill and intimacy of spirituality. The modern era is often characterized as a time of increasing secularism, but in this trenchant new work, Green demonstrates how the foundations of modern society were laid as much by spirituality as by science or reason. The Religious Revolution is a narrative tour de force that sweeps across several continents and five of the most turbulent and formative decades in history. Threading together seemingly disparate intellectual trajectories, Green illuminates how philosophers, grifters, artists, scientists, and yogis shared in a global cultural moment, borrowing one another's beliefs and making the world we know today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780374708757
• Artikelnr.: 61526149

Autorenporträt

Dominic Green, PhD, is a critic, a historian, and the deputy editor of The Spectator's US edition. He writes widely on the arts and current affairs, and contributes regularly to The Wall Street Journal and The New Criterion. He is the author of Three Empires on the Nile, Armies of God, Benny Green: Words and Music, and The Double Life of Doctor Lopez. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Arts, he has taught writing and history at Brandeis and Boston College. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: 1848
Great Expectations
PART I: THE DEVELOPMENT HYPOTHESIS: 1848-1871
1. The New Prometheus
Socialists and Spiritualists in the Age of the Machine
2. The Stones of Venice
Ruskin and Thoreau Against the Juggernaut
3. The French Revelation
Baudelaire, Lévi, and the Romantic Occult
4. The Descent of Man
Darwin, Gobineau, and the Meaning of Life
5. The New Chronology
Whitman, Huxley, and the War for the Soul
6. The Origin of the World
Wagner, Jesus, and the Racial Spirit
PART II: THE NEW AGE: 1871-1898
7. Passage to India
Madame Blavatsky's Empire of Theosophy
8. The Revolt of Zarathustra
Nietzsche in Urania
9. The Eternal Return
Colonel Olcott and the Modern Buddha
10. The Will to Power
Afghani's Islamic Science and Other Conspiracies
11. Culture and Anarchy
The New Age Education of Mohandas Gandhi
12. The Perspectivists
Vivekananda and Herzl Among the Aryans
Epilogue: 1898
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index