 | Organized Freethought: The Religion of Unbelief in Victorian England Subjects: Humanities; Class and Work; States of Mind; Religion; Concepts of Society; Social Groups; Knowledge; Varieties of Religious Belief ; Political Beliefs and Ideologies; Social Conventions and Orthodoxies; Attitudes to Nature; Christianity; Religious History; Religion and Philosophy; Working Classes; Intellectuals; Freethought; Radicalism; Tradition; Natural Theology; The Supernatural; This title, first published in 1987, explores the phenomenon of militant freethought among England's working classes from 1840-1870. In particular, it is an effort to explain the peculiarly theological and evangelistic overtones of much Victorian working class radicalism, and the resulting emergence of a Victorian religion of atheism. This title will be of interest to students of nineteenth-century religious and social history. |
