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The religious revolution : the birth of modern spirituality, 1848-1898

Green, Dominic 1970- (author.).

Summary: "A sweeping cultural and intellectual history of the birth of modern spirituality in the late nineteenth century"--

Record details

ISBN: 0374248834
ISBN: 9780374248833
Physical Description: x, 452 pages ; 24 cm
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-423) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Prologue: 1848: great expectations -- Part I: the development hypothesis: 1848-1871 -- The new Prometheus: socialis and spiritualists in the age of the machine -- The stones of Venice: Ruskin and Thoreau against the juggernaut -- The French revelation : Baudelaire, Levi, and the romantic occult -- The descent of man: Darwin, Gobineau, and the meaning of life -- The new chronology: Whitman, Huxley, and the war for the soul -- The origin of the world: Wagner, Jesus, and the racial spirit -- Part II: the new age: 1871-1898 00 Passage to India: Madame Blavatsky's empire of theosophy -- The revolt of Zarathustra: Nietzshe in Urania -- the eternal return: Colonel Olcott and the modern Buddha -- The will to power: Afghani's Islamic science and other conspiracies -- Culture and anarchy: The new-age education of Mohandas Gandhi -- The perspectivists: Vivekananda and Herzl among the Aryans -- Epilogue: 1989: the psychopathology of everyday life.