{"product_id":"spirit-matters-j-jeffrey-franklin-9781501715440","title":"Spirit Matters: Occult Beliefs, Alternative Religions, and the Crisis of Faith in Victorian Britain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpirit Matters\u003c\/i\u003e explores the heterodox and unorthodox religions and spiritualities that arose in Victorian Britain as a result of the faltering of Christian faith in the face of modernity, the rise of the truth-telling authority of science, and the first full exposure of the West to non-Christian religions. J. Jeffrey Franklin investigates the diversity of ways that spiritual seekers struggled to maintain faith or to create new faiths by reconciling elements of the Judeo-Christian heritage with Spiritualism, Buddhism, occultism, and scientific naturalism. \u003ci\u003eSpirit Matters\u003c\/i\u003e covers a range of scenarios from the Victorian hearth and the state-Church altar to the frontiers of empire in Buddhist countries and Egyptian crypts. Franklin reveals how this diversity of elements provided the materials for the formation of new hybrid religions and the emergence in the 20th century of New Age spiritualities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFranklin investigates a broad spectrum of experiences through a series of representative case studies that together trace the development of unorthodox religious and spiritual discourses. The ideas and events discussed by Franklin through these case studies were considered outside the domain of orthodox religion yet still religious or spiritual rather than atheistic or materialistic. Among the works--obscure and canonical--he analyzes are Edward Bulwer-Lytton's \u003ci\u003eZanoni\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Strange Story\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eForest Life in Ceylon\u003c\/i\u003e, by William Knighton; Anthony Trollope's \u003ci\u003eThe Vicar of Bullhampton\u003c\/i\u003e; Anna Leonowens's \u003ci\u003eThe English Governess at the Siamese Court; Literature and Dogma, \u003c\/i\u003eby Matthew Arnold\u003ci\u003e; \u003c\/i\u003eand Bram Stoker's\u003ci\u003e Dracula.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. Jeffrey Franklin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501715445\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501715440\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2018","brand":"J. Jeffrey Franklin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43935202181375,"sku":"9781501715440","price":56.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_c2f435c3-da72-4e14-90ad-0ebd930009d5.jpg?v=1681418450","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/spirit-matters-j-jeffrey-franklin-9781501715440","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}