religion in the 19th century

[lady.R]

gd evening
how is evry1 ?

i need a help in religion at the 19 century

can any1 tell me kinds of religion at that time ?
i need a references for ur answers plz

thanx for all :)

[Whifflingpin]

A little more information would be helpful. What are you trying to do?
Since this is a literary forum, I could recommend you to read Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes, The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler and the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam in Fitzgerald's translation.
Those would give enough material for an essay on religion in England in mid-C19. Not the whole spectrum, of course, even for England, let alone the rest of the world. You could probably write a 10,000 word essay just listing countries and the religions found in them, without actually describing the religions at all.

[jocky]

If you are serious there was a cencus taken in 1851 in the mid Victorian period which revealed that only 51% of the population attended church on a regular basis. The Victorians were horrified and assumed that they were living in an ungodly society. Imagine a cencus taken today ? Now this is the important point, most modern scholars will blame Darwin and science, but how many of the population at that time would have known or understood natural selection? I suggest you read some of the contemporary writers for an intellectual glimpse of their time, Matthew Arnold's 'Dover Beach' and Tennyson's 'In Memoriam ' This may not answer your question but it should point you to the intellectual struggle that was rife at the time. If the intellectuals did not have certainty then it was no surprise that church attendance was falling. We are still living with the slow demise of organised religion today. Hope that helped.

[lady.R]

actually what i'm going to do is a project about the religion in the 19C
so i need a book or website that give me a big look at the religion that time
then i will talk about the religion in specific novels

thanx all for helping me :')

[jocky]

actually what i'm going to do is a project about the religion in the 19C
so i need a book or website that give me a big look at the religion that time
then i will talk about the religion in specific novels

thanx all for helping me :')

Oh! get a grip thou non brliever. Cheers from old Jocky and that is the last time I will use my Matthew Arnold quote. Pip pip old chap and lots of hoots :D

[Whifflingpin]

"a project about the religion in the 19C"

The subject is too vast -
religion where? England? Japan? Greece? Easter Island? Somaliland? Massachusetts?
and when? New Guinea before the missionaries got there? Utah after the Mormons arrived? India in 1857? Oxford at the time of the Oxford Movement?

You might do better to select your novels first, and then write your project considering only the religious background relevant to the novels, then say how that background affected the novels, or how the novels commented on, or even changed, the background.

[BienvenuJDC]

If you narrow the topic down to Christianity in America in the 19th century, an excellent topic would be the "Restoration" movement...breaking away from the traditions of European Christian denominations, and the new found freedom in America allowed a break away from the establishment of Organized Religion. One book to consider is "The Eternal Kingdom" by Mattox. Other men to research is Raccoon John Smith, Alexander Campbell, Barton Stone, etc. Let me know by private message if this is an area that would interest you, and I can point you in direction of other books or sites...

[byquist]

Two obvious 19th Century USA books: "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" - Mary Baker Eddy; "The Book of Mormon" - Joseph Smith

[hellsapoppin]

The American classic Freedom's Ferment by Professor Alice Felt Tyler reveals a great deal about religious mythology in the 19th century. This book is largely forgotten today but was considered by past historians to be the greatest book on American history.