“If It Teaches, It Teaches Imperceptibly:” Recasting the Secularity of the Victorian Public Sphere
Offering an account of Victorian secularisation which does not depend on the definition of the term “religion,” this article draws on a strand of secularisation studies often neglected by Victorian scholars. In particular, it develops two key aspects of philosopher Charles Taylor's work: the concept of social imaginaries, and the association of secularity with a particular kind of time. Emphasising the human-technological networks through which the notion of a Victorian public sphere was constituted, the article highlights how the function of these networks was premised on a concept of secular time regardless of participants’ conscious or articulated (non)belief. In these particular networks, the notion of immediacy and absolute simultaneity — which both presuppose a concept of secular time — were constituted through the mobilisation of a wide range of mediators, human and nonhuman. Here, the term “secularisation” denotes this process of increasingly investing and embedding secular time on the level of unarticulated assumptions. This allows scholars to recast the question of Victorian secularisation in a manner which avoids the problems associated with defining secularity as an absence of “belief” or “religion.”
Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1467-9809.12452
Rebekka S. Schirner: Inspice diligenter codices. Philologische Studien zu Augustins Umgang mit Bibelhandschriften und -übersetzungen
Journal Name: Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity
Volume: 21
Issue: 1
Pages: 196-199
Volume: 21
Issue: 1
Pages: 196-199
Quelle: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/zac.2017.21.issue-1/zac-2016-0039/zac-2016-0039.xml
Marcion and the Corruption of Paul’s Gospel
Journal Name: Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity
Volume: 21
Issue: 1
Pages: 121-139
Volume: 21
Issue: 1
Pages: 121-139
Quelle: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/zac.2017.21.issue-1/zac-2017-0008/zac-2017-0008.xml
Stefan Freund: Laktanz. „Divinae Institutiones“. Buch 7: „De vita beata“. Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar
Journal Name: Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity
Volume: 21
Issue: 1
Pages: 189-192
Volume: 21
Issue: 1
Pages: 189-192
Quelle: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/zac.2017.21.issue-1/zac-2017-0014/zac-2017-0014.xml
Das marcionitische Evangelium und die Textgeschichte des Neuen Testaments. Eine Antwort an Thomas Johann Bauer und Ulrich B. Schmid
Journal Name: Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity
Volume: 21
Issue: 1
Pages: 110-120
Volume: 21
Issue: 1
Pages: 110-120
Quelle: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/zac.2017.21.issue-1/zac-2017-0007/zac-2017-0007.xml
Outi Lehtipuu: Debates Over the Resurrection of the Dead. Constructing Early Christian Identity
Journal Name: Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity
Volume: 21
Issue: 1
Pages: 180-183
Volume: 21
Issue: 1
Pages: 180-183
Quelle: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/zac.2017.21.issue-1/zac-2016-0041/zac-2016-0041.xml
Das marcionitische Evangelium und die (Text-)Überlieferung der Evangelien
Journal Name: Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity
Volume: 21
Issue: 1
Pages: 90-109
Volume: 21
Issue: 1
Pages: 90-109
Quelle: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/zac.2017.21.issue-1/zac-2017-0006/zac-2017-0006.xml
Johannes Arnold: Der Wahre Logos des Kelsos. Eine Strukturanalyse, Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum
Journal Name: Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity
Volume: 21
Issue: 1
Pages: 169-174
Volume: 21
Issue: 1
Pages: 169-174
Quelle: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/zac.2017.21.issue-1/zac-2017-0011/zac-2017-0011.xml
Das Evangelium des Markion und die Vetus Latina
Journal Name: Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum / Journal of Ancient Christianity
Volume: 21
Issue: 1
Pages: 73-89
Volume: 21
Issue: 1
Pages: 73-89
Quelle: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/zac.2017.21.issue-1/zac-2017-0005/zac-2017-0005.xml