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Bringing together scholars from literary, historical, and religious studies,Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religioninterrogates the seemingly obvious category of “religion.” This collection argues that any application of religion engages in complex and relatively modern historical processes. In considering the various ways that nineteenth-century religion was constructed, commodified, and practiced, contributors to this volume “speak” to each other, finding interdisciplinary links and resonances across a range of texts and contexts. The participle in its title—Constructing—acknowledges that any articulation of nineteenth-century religion is never just a work of the past: scholars also actively construct religion as their disciplinary assumptions (and indeed personal and lived investments) shape their research and findings. Constructing NineteenthCentury Religion newly analyzes the diverse ways in which religion was debated and deployed in a wide range of nineteenthcentury texts and contexts. While focusing primarily on nineteenthcentury Britain, the collection also contributes to the increasingly transnational and transcultural outlook of postsecular studies, drawing connections between Britain and the United States, continental Europe, and colonial India.
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Literary, Historical, and Religious Studies in Dialogue Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion e d i te d by Joshua King an d Winter Jade Werner C ONST RUC T I NG N I N ET E E N T H- CE N T U RY R E L IGION L I T E R AT U R E , R E L IGION, A N D POSTSECULAR STUDIES Lori Branch, Series Editor CONSTRUCTING NINETEENTH-CENTURY RELIGION • Literary, Historical, and Religious Studies in Dialogue Edited by Joshua King and Winter Jade Werner T H E O H I O S TAT E U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S C O LUM BU S Copyright © 2019 by The Ohio State University. All rights reserved. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: King, Joshua, 1979– editor. | Werner, Winter Jade, editor. Title: Constructing nineteenth-century religion : literary, historical, and religious studies in dialogue / edited by Joshua King and Winter Jade Werner. Other titles: Literature, religion, and postsecular studies. Description: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2019] | Series: Literature, religion, and postsecular studies | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018053049 | ISBN 9780814213971 (cloth ; alk. paper) | ISBN 0814213979 (cloth ; alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Religion and literature—Great Britain—19th Century—History. | Religion in literature. | English literature—19th century—History and criticism. Classification: LCC PR468.R44 C66 2019 | DDC 820.9/382—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018053049 Cover design by Christian Fuenfhausen Text design by Juliet Williams Type set in Adobe Minion Pro CONTENTS • List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix INTRODUCTION JO SH UA K I NG A N D W I N T E R JA DE W E R N E R PART I 1 REFORMING RELIGION AND THE SECUL AR CHAPTER 1 Religion and the Secular State: Loisy’s Use of “Religion” Prior to His Excommunication J E F F R EY L . MOR ROW 25 CHAPTER 2 A Commonwealth of Affection: Modern Hinduism and the Cultural History of the Study of Religion J. BA RTON S C OT T 46 CHAPTER 3 “God’s Insurrection”: Politics and Faith in the Revolutionary Sermons of Joseph Rayner Stephens M I K E S A N DE R S 65 CHAPTER 4 George Jacob Holyoake, Secularism, and Constructing “Religion” as an Anachronistic Repressor DAV I D NASH 81 CHAPTER 5 Karl Marx and the Invention