W. T. Stead : Nonconformist and Newspaper Prophet PDF
by Stewart J. Brown
Part of the Spiritual Lives series
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W. T. Stead (1849-1912) was a newspaper editor, author, social reformer, advocate for women rights, peace campaigner, spiritualist, and one of the best-known public figures in the late Victorian and Edwardian Britain.
W. T. Stead: Nonconformist and Newspaper Prophet provides a compelling religious biography of Stead, offering particular attention to his conception of journalism-in an age of growing mass literacy-as a means to communicate religious truthand morality, and his view of the editor's desk as a modern pulpit.
Leading scholar, Stewart J. Brown explores how his Nonconformist Conscience and sense of divine calling infused Stead's newspaper crusades-most famously his 'Maiden Tribute' campaign against child prostitution. The biography also examines Stead's growing interest in spiritualism and the occult, as he searched for the evidence of an afterlife that might draw people in a more secular age back to faith.
It discusses his imperialism and his belief in the English-speaking peoples of the British Empire and American Republic as God's new chosen people for the spread of civilisation; and it highlights how his growing understanding of other faiths and cultures—but more especially his moral revulsion over theSouth African War of 1899-1902—brought him to question those beliefs.
Finally, it assesses the influence of religious faith on his campaigns for world peace and the arbitration of international disputes.
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- Publication Date:26/09/2019
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:OUP Oxford
- Publication Date:26/09/2019
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- ISBN:9780192568649