...Ruth M. McAdams Ruth M. McAdams, “Religious Violence without Religion: Bleak Secular Stasis in Dickens’s Barnaby Rudge ” (pp. 243–269) This article analyzes the erasure of religion in Charles Dickens’s historical novel Barnaby Rudge (1841). The novel strangely depicts the anti-Catholic Gordon riots...

... to conflict with secular scholars in the developing social science disciplines. According to the secular scholars of these disciplines, religion was subordinate to culture; it functioned to delimit one social group from another. A number of religious practitioners, including Protestant missionaries and Hindu...