Reading Victorian Religion, ed. Amanda Vernon

The Victorians witnessed a significant reconfiguration of the religious landscape over the course of the nineteenth century. Increased freedom for religious minorities, new historical approaches to biblical criticism, renegotiations of the relationship between science and theology, and the emergence of alternative spiritual movements impacted the ways in which religion was imagined, understood, practiced, and expressed. This dynamic and vibrant religious culture is reflected in the period’s literary culture, with periodicals, literary criticism, novels, and poetry engaging with the diverse forms in which religion was present. This special issue invites papers that read the varied forms of Victorian religion and/or responses to it.
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