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Freethought
About: Freethought is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 100 publications have been published within this topic receiving 1255 citations. The topic is also known as: freethought.
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1 Jan 2007
TL;DR: In this article, the refashioning of William Kingdon Clifford's posthumous reputation and the pathologisation of aestheticism are discussed. But the focus of this paper is on the re-fashioning of Clifford's reputation.
Abstract: 1 Introduction: Darwinian science and Victorian respectability 2 Charles Darwin, Algernon Charles Swinburne and sexualised responses to evolution 3 John Tyndall, Walter Pater and the nineteenth-century revival of paganism 4 Darwinism, Victorian freethought and the Obscene Publications Act 5 The refashioning of William Kingdon Clifford's posthumous reputation 6 T H Huxley, Henry Maudsley and the pathologisation of aestheticism Notes Bibliography Index
244 citations
31 Jan 2002
TL;DR: The Cultural Construction of Religion in the Media Age, by Stewart M. Hoover as mentioned in this paper, is a survey of the development of media, religion, and culture in the United States.
Abstract: Introduction: The Cultural Construction of Religion in the Media Age, by Stewart M. Hoover1. Overview: The "Protestantization" of research into Media, Religion, and Culture, by Lynn Schofield ClarkPart 1. Mediation in Popular Religious Practice 2. Protestant Visual Practice and American Mass Culture, by David Morgan3. Believing in Elvis: Popular Piety in Material Culture, by Erika DossPart 2. The Mediation of Religion in the Public Sphere 4. Public Art as Sacred Space: Asian American Community Murals In Los Angeles, by J. Shawn Landres5. All the World's a Stage: The Performed Religion of the Salvation Army, 1880-1920, by Diane Winston6. "Turn It Off!": TV Criticism in theChristian Century Magazine, 1946-1960, by Michele RosenthalPart 3. Religion Made Public Through the Media 7. Between Objectivity and Moral Vision: Catholics and Evangelicals in American Journalism, by John Schmalzbauer8. The Southern Baptist Controversy and the Press, by Mark G. BorchertPart 4. Implicit Religion and Mediated Public Ritual 9. Scapegoating and Deterrence: Criminal Justice Rituals in American Civil Religion, by Carolyn Marvin10. Ritual and the Media, by Ronald L. GrimesPart 5. Explicit and Public Expression in New Media Contexts 11. Allah On-Line: The Practice of Global Islam in the Information Age, by Bruce B. Lawrence12. Internet Ritual: A Case Study of the Construction of Computer-Mediated Neopagan Religious Meaning, by Jan Fernback13. Religious Sensibilities in the Age of the Internet: Freethought Culture and the Historical Context of Communication Media, by David NashPart 6. Specific Religions and Specific Media in National and Ethnic Contexts 14. Religious Television in Sweden: Toward a More Balanced View of Its Reception, by Alf Linderman15. Religious to Ethnic-National Identities: Political Mobilization Through Jewish Images in the United States and Britain, 1881-1939, by Michael Berkowitz16. Between American Televangelism and African Anglicanism, by Knut Lundby17. "Speaking in Tongues, Writing in Vision": Orality and Literacy in Televangelistic Communications, by Keyan G. Tomaselli and Arnold SheppersonContributorsIndex
150 citations
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1 Jan 1980
134 citations
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1 Jan 1999
TL;DR: A glossary of theological and other terms can be found in this paper, along with a list of illustrations of the Coleridge circle in the 1790s and the Shelley generation in the 1810s.
Abstract: List of illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The atheism debate, 1780-1800 2. Masters of the universe: Lucretius, Sir William Jones, Richard Payne Knight and Erasmus Darwin 3. And did those feet? Blake in the 1790s 4. The tribes of mind: the Coleridge circle in the 1790s 5. Whatsoe'er is dim and vast: Wordsworth in the 1790s 6. Temples of reason: atheist strategies, 1800-30 7. Pretty paganism: the Shelley generation in the 1810s Conclusion Glossary of theological and other terms Notes Bibliography Index.
91 citations
TL;DR: In the late 1800s and early 1800s, Wright was known as the Red Harlot of Infidelity as discussed by the authors, and she aroused emotions ranging from adulation to rage among the religiously orthodox and politically conservative.
Abstract: WHEN THE NOTORIOUS RADICAL AND "FREE LOVER" FRANCES WRIGHT stood before predominantly working-class audiences during the late 1 820s and 1 830s, she aroused emotions ranging from adulation to rage. To the religiously orthodox and politically conservative, Wright was "the Red Harlot of Infidelity." The Advocate of Moral Reform, warning of Wright's return to New York in 1836, "reminded" its readers of the "melancholy effects of the former preaching and practice of this procuress of atheism and infidelity":
76 citations
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