Imagined Spiritual Communities in Britain's Age of Print

Handbuch Zeitschriftenforschung

“…Jahrhundert haben insbesondere Benedict Andersons Ansatz der »imagined community« auf christliche Gemeinschaften übertragen (vgl. Brown 2004;King 2015). Auf ähnliche Weise schreibt Jerome Tharaud der evangelikalen Printkultur die Macht zu, endzeitliche Vorstellungen vor dem Bürgerkrieg in den USA populär gemacht und in die Landschaft eingeschrieben zu haben.…”

Rossetti, Christina

“…Rossetti's indirect suggestion of an analogy between spring and resurrection is characteristic of her "reserve." Reserve, or the principle that "Christian truth should be obliquely expressed and held back from people until they are ready to receive it" (King andPond 2015, 1233), was encouraged in the Anglo-Catholic communities in which Rossetti, like the novelist Charlotte Yonge, worshipped throughout her life. Anglo-Catholicism was descended from the Tractarian or Oxford Movement earlier in the century, which had reasserted the continuity of the Church of England with Catholic tradition since the time of the apostles.…”

New Religions and Esotericism

“…[W]hat had changed from the eighteenth century, " writes Larsen, "was not so much that some people now doubted, as that more of those who did now insisted on being open and honest about it" (11). New challenges to scriptural authority emanating from the domain of science in this periodmost notably Darwinian natural selection and Lyell's geological gradualism-may have 1 See Owen 1989 and2004;Knight and Mason 2006;Larsen 2006;Melnyk 2008;King 2015. intensified these doubts for some, but they did not exclusively originate them; furthermore, as the success of Robert Chamber's (1802-1871) Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844) demonstrates, believers were perfectly capable of reconciling such paradigm shifts with continued faith in a loving God. This new flexibility and diversification of religion compels us to exercise caution as we consider the well-documented decline of Church attendance in this period (Melnyk 155).…”