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5HUM0325 Peace, Power and Prosperity: Lecture 7

Religion, Science and Doubt

Structure of the lecture

•  The Churches: challenges and problems •  Science: Darwin •  Doubt: secularisation?

‘The Light of the World’, by William Holman Hunt (1851-53)

Problems: Nonconformity and the nations: Calvinistic Methodist index of attendances, 1851

Snell, K.D.M., Rival Jerusalems: the Geography of Victorian Religion (2000), p. 156.

Problems: Population Snell, K.D.M., Rival Jerusalems: the Geography of Victorian Religion (2000),

pp. 63, 410. People per place of C of E worship Population density, 1851

Church attendances, 1851 Snell, K.D.M., Rival Jerusalems: the Geography of Victorian Religion (2000), pp. 72, 168.

Church of England attendances ‘New’ Dissent attendances

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Index of attendances for all denominations, 1851

Snell, K.D.M., Rival Jerusalems: the Geography of Victorian Religion (2000), p. 408.

Charles Darwin (1809-92) On the Origin of Species (1859)

Darwin as an ape, Hornet Magazine, 1870

Bishop Samuel Wilberforce vs Thomas Huxley, 1860

http://www.library.otago.ac.nz/exhibitions/darwin/index.html

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)