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Cultivating Belief: Victorian Anthropology, Liberal Aesthetics, and the Secular Imagination Lecourt, Sebastian (Assistant Professor, University of Houston)
Cultivating Belief: Victorian Anthropology, Liberal Aesthetics, and the Secular Imagination
Lecourt, Sebastian (Assistant Professor, University of Houston)
This book 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.
240 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | June 12, 2018 |
| ISBN13 | 9780198812494 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 240 |
| Dimensions | 225 × 150 × 25 mm · 458 g |
| Language | English |