The Contemporary Evolution of Religious Thought in England, America and India
Description
Count Goblet d’Alviella’s comparative account of contemporary religious thought in England, the United States, and India, translated by J. Moden and published in 1885.
The American chapters discuss Unitarianism, Emerson and Parker, Free Religion, ethical religion, and evolution. Other chapters examine English religious change and the Brahmo Somaj and related developments in India. It offers a nineteenth-century comparative interpretation of movements represented elsewhere in this collection.
Navigation includes the translator’s preface, original chapters, conclusion, and index. Some contents-page numbers differ from the actual chapter openings; targets follow the scanned headings. Source: Internet Archive, University of California Libraries copy.
Table of contents 19 entries
- Translator’s Preface vii
- Introduction 1
- The Progress of Free Inquiry in England Since the Reformation 13
- The Philosophy of Evolution and the Crisis of Theism 35
- The Progress of Thought in Orthodox Protestantism 57
- English Unitarianism 81
- Rationalistic Congregations Beyond the Pale of Christianity 103
- Comtism and Secularism 129
- The Genesis of Unitarianism in the United States 155
- The Transcendental Movement—Emerson and Parker 167
- Free Religion and the Religion of Ethics 183
- Cosmism and the Religion of Evolution 209
- Theism in Contemporary India 225
- The Social Reforms of the Brahmo Somaj 241
- The Eclecticism of the Brahma Dharma in Its Struggle with Hindu Mysticism 257
- Syncretism of the New Dispensation 273
- Brahmoism and the Religious Future of India 291
- Summary and Conclusion 313
- Index p. 347