Religion and Irreligion in Victorian Society: Essays in Honor of R.K. Webb [Paperback]

This volume of eleven specially commissioned essays celebrates the work of Robert K. Webb, one of the foremost historians of modern Britain. The contributors address some of the central themes in the history of nineteenth-century religion.`... there is something here for everyone in what is an unusually even, well-planned and academically successful.' IR. W. Davis (Edited by) , R. J. Helmstadter (Author)First published in 1992.This volume of eleven specially commissioned essays celebrates the work of Robert K. Webb, one of the foremost historians of modern Britain. The contributors, established scholars from Britain, Canada, Australia and the United States, address some of the central themes in the history of nineteenth-century religion, including evangelicalism and the culture of the market economy, religious issues in the liberal politics of the 1830s, the radical atheist Robert Taylor, Charles Darwin, the Victorian ideal of `manliness', nineteenth century images of Mary Magdalene, the Jews in Victorian society, colonialism, the role of women missionaries as models of female achievement, and spiritualism during the Great War. Together these essays make a significant contribution to the study of the role of religion in Victorian society.Introduction; Chapter 1 The Reverend Andrew Reed (17871862): evangelical pastor as entrepreneur, R. J.Helmstadter; Chapter 2 The Whigs and religious issues, 18305, R. W.Davis; Chapter 3 Popular irreligion in early Victorian England: infidel preachers and radical theatricality in 1830s London, I. D.McCalman; Chapter 4 Between Genesis and geology: Darwin and some contemporaries in the 1820s and 1830s, SandraHerbert; Chapter 5 Cultural pluralism and the Board of Deputies of British Jews, David C.Itzkowitz; Chapter 6 The manliness of Christ, PeterGay; Chapter 7 More sweet and liquid than any other: Victorian images of Mary Magdalene, Patricia S.Kruppa; Chapter 8 History and religion: J. R. Seeley and thló'