Sebastian Lecourt: 1 book
Cultivating Belief
Victorian Anthropology, Liberal Aesthetics, and the Secular Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
This book explores how a group of Victorian liberal writers that included George Eliot, Walter Pater, and Matthew Arnold became attracted to new theories of religion as a function of race and ethnicity. Since the early modern period, British liberals had typically constructed religion as a zone of...
