Mid-Nineteenth-Century Secularism as Modern Secularity

Rectenwald, Michael; Cragun, Ryan T.; Manning, Christel; Fazzino, Lori L.

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“…While secular agitators date back at least as far as Ancient Greece (Whitmarsh ) and were active during the founding of the United States (Jacoby ; Paine ), social movement organizations created specifically to advocate for the rights of individuals who fall within the ranks of religion's other date to the 19th century, with the first such formal organizations being created in the United Kingdom (Rectenwald ). As of 2019, there are thousands of secular organizations around the world (García and Blankholm ; Mastiaux ).…”

Section: Secular Movement and Organizing Nonreligionmentioning

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Mapping Religion's Other: A Review of the Study of Nonreligion and Secularity

Smith

Cragun

2019

Scientific Study of Religion

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In this article, we review the research literature on nonreligion, secularity, the nones, and other forms of "religion's other." As a relatively new area of sustained and still growing research activity, with its attendant theoretical and methodological implications continuing to take shape, our focus is on the social science research from the mid-2000s to the present. We consider the challenges of definition and perspective in this line of inquiry, highlight key arguments, and summarize the main findings from empirical studies of nonreligion and its relationship to topics including identity, health, family, and prejudice. After discussing the organizational and social movement aspects of nonreligious communities, as well as related developments in how scholars are studying these communities, we conclude our assessment of the state of this field by proffering questions relevant to both current efforts and whatever future directions are in store for research on religion's other.

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Section: Secular Movement and Organizing Nonreligionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mapping Religion's Other: A Review of the Study of Nonreligion and Secularity

Smith

Cragun

2019

Scientific Study of Religion

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Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Stone

2022

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Many women wrote philosophy in nineteenth-century Britain, and they wrote across the full range of philosophical topics. Yet these important women thinkers have been left out of the philosophical canon and many of them are barely known today. This book puts them back on the map. The book introduces twelve women philosophers: Mary Shepherd, Harriet Martineau, Ada Lovelace, George Eliot, Frances Power Cobbe, Helena Blavatsky, Julia Wedgwood, Victoria Welby, Arabella Buckley, Annie Besant, Vernon Lee, and Constance Naden. The book examines their views on naturalism, philosophy of mind, the meaning of evolution, morality and religion, and progress in history. The book shows how these women interacted and developed their philosophical views in conversation with one another, not only with their male contemporaries. The rich print and periodical culture enabled these women to publish philosophy in forms accessible to a general readership, despite the restrictions women faced, such as having limited or no access to university education. The book explains how these women became excluded from the history of philosophy because, at the end of the nineteenth century, there was a change towards specialized forms of philosophical writing which depended on academic credentials that were still largely unavailable to women.

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2023

Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain

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Mid-Nineteenth-Century Secularism as Modern Secularity

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Mapping Religion's Other: A Review of the Study of Nonreligion and Secularity

Mapping Religion's Other: A Review of the Study of Nonreligion and Secularity

Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain

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