Book chapter
On Re-defining 'Crisis': The Victorian Crisis of Faith in the Punjab, 1880-1900
Victorian Faith in Crisis: Essays on Continuity and Change in Nineteenth-Century Religious Belief, pp.315-342
Macmillan
1990
Abstract
Almost all academic thinking about religion in the modern world has been governed, in one way or another, by the assumption that we are in the midst of a transition from a world in which religion was universally important to a world in which religion will be universally marginal. Scholars who would vigorously deny holding any theory of the nature of religion in the modern world fall back upon this assumption unwittingly. As the sociological theory of secularisation, the same assumption dominates the social history of religion, and scholars who set out to escape from the theory find themselves entrapped within its tentacles before they can get away.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- On Re-defining 'Crisis': The Victorian Crisis of Faith in the Punjab, 1880-1900
- Creators
- Jeffrey Cox - University of Iowa, History
- Contributors
- Richard J Helmstadter (Editor)Bernard Lightman (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Victorian Faith in Crisis: Essays on Continuity and Change in Nineteenth-Century Religious Belief, pp.315-342
- Publisher
- Macmillan; Houndmills, Basingstoke, Eng.
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1990
- Academic Unit
- History
- Record Identifier
- 9983763599202771
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