Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion

<div>Bringing together scholars from literary historical and religious studies<i>Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion</i>interrogates the seemingly obvious category of religion. This collection argues that any application of religion engages in complex and relatively modern historical processes. In considering the various ways that nineteenth-century religion was constructed commodified and practiced contributors to this volume speak to each other finding interdisciplinary links and resonances across a range of texts and contexts.<br>  <br> The participle in its title-<i>Constructing</i>-acknowledges that any articulation of nineteenth-century religion is never just a work of the past: scholars also actively construct religion as their disciplinary assumptions (and indeed personal and lived investments) shape their research and findings. <i>Constructing Nineteenth­Century Religion</i> newly analyzes the diverse ways in which religion was debated and deployed in a wide range of nineteenth­century texts and contexts. While focusing primarily on nineteenth­century Britain the collection also contributes to the increasingly transnational and transcultural outlook of postsecular studies drawing connections between Britain and the United States continental Europe and colonial India.<br>  </div>