Religious ambivalence: Geology and the Victorian crisis of faith

Type :

Presentation

Pages :

5 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

11/06/2008

Category :

Political science

Sub category :

Social sciences

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Summary :

Introduction.
Religion and its revered position in early Victorian society.
1. Britons of the 1820's and 30's.
2. Memoriam's popularity and empathy with Tennyson's feelings.
The people most severely affected by the Victorian crisis of faith.
Christianity and left-wing philosophies.
1. The spread liberalism.
2. Secularization of politics.
3. Church and the competition with modern trends.
The working class' increasing ambivalence.
1. Urbanization and the migration of the working class.
2. The Victorian crisis of faith and a period of anxiety.

Abstract

Edmund Burke wrote, "There is nothing so fatal to religion as indifference." If religion were the driving force in pre- and early victorian society, indifference and confusion would have been the contenders of its power. Religion, a societal stabilizer, political voice, and moral authority in the early 1800's, became by the 1890's a quiet whisper of spirituality. An influx of intellectual, scientific, and societal ideas as well as the changing face of politics and economics caused this change in the position of Chrisitanity. The victorian people, bombarded by changes that challenged their preconceived religious beliefs, underwent a crisis of faith. Many became spiritually confused, and subsequently, religiously indifferent. It was not a loss of faith, but a period of controversy, uncertainty, and anxiety, which helped decrease church attendance in subsequent generations.