Empire and Progress in the Victorian Secularist Movement

Patrick J. Corbeil is an independent scholar living in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: “The assumption of an Indian or Egyptian Priest is just as good, to our thinking, as the assumption of a Christian Priest”: Secularism and Comparative Religion, Imagining a Secular World.- Chapter 3: Grounding Non-Theological Morality: Secular Ethics and Human Progress.- Chapter 4: Sceptical Missionaries and Republican Internationalism.- Chapter 5: Secularism and the Limits of Universal Progress.- Chapter 6: Conclusion