Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion: Literary, Historical, and Religious Studies in Dialogue

Bringing together scholars from literary, historical, and religious studies, Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religioninterrogates the seemingly obvious category of "religion." This collection argues that any application of religion engages in complex and relatively modern historical processes. In considering the various ways that nineteenth-century religion was constructed, commodified, and practiced, contributors to this volume "speak" to each other, finding interdisciplinary links and resonances across a range of texts and contexts.

The participle in its title-Constructing-acknowledges that any articulation of nineteenth-century religion is never just a work of the past: scholars also actively construct religion as their disciplinary assumptions (and indeed personal and lived investments) shape their research and findings. Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion newly analyzes the diverse ways in which religion was debated and deployed in a wide range of nineteenth-century texts and contexts. While focusing primarily on nineteenth-century Britain, the collection also contributes to the increasingly transnational and transcultural outlook of postsecular studies, drawing connections between Britain and the United States, continental Europe, and colonial India.


Author: Joshua King, Winter Jade Werner
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 05/02/2019
Pages: 334
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d
ISBN13: 9780814213971
ISBN10: 0814213979
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | European | General
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Religion | History

About the Author
Joshua King is Associate Professor at Baylor University and author of Imagined Spiritual Communities in Britain's Age of Print (OSU Press, 2015). Winter Jade Werner is Assistant Professor at Wheaton College.

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