5. Religion and the "Simple Life": Dugald Semple and Translocal "Life Reform" Networks
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| 1. | Title | Title of document | 5. Religion and the "Simple Life": Dugald Semple and Translocal "Life Reform" Networks - Translocal Lives and Religion |
| 2. | Creator | Author's name, affiliation, country | Steven Sutcliffe; University of Edinburgh; United Kingdom |
| 3. | Subject | Discipline(s) | Religion; Asian Studies |
| 4. | Subject | Keyword(s) | Dugald Semple' 'life reform' ; 'back to the land' movements; European Lebensreform |
| 5. | Subject | Subject classification | Religious studies |
| 6. | Description | Abstract | This chapter presents a case study of a Scottish exponent of the “simple life”, Dugald Semple (1884−1964), within early 20th-century networks of life reform or Lebensreform. It argues that the underlying thread in Semple’s “life reform” is a non-conformist, anti-clerical religious individualism which incorporated Transcendentalism with a Tolstoyan and Gandhian pacifism. A case study of Semple’s career in dialogue with his English and continental interlocutors demonstrates the value of empirically based transnational enquiry at the level of individuals and networks for understanding the varied inflections of “life reform”, particularly the religious roots of the phenomenon. It also contributes to the historiography of important currents in “alternative religion” which fed the post-world-war-two “new age”, “eco” and commune movements. |
| 7. | Publisher | Organizing agency, location | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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| 9. | Date | (YYYY-MM-DD) | 08-Feb-2021 |
| 10. | Type | Status & genre | peer-reviewed chapters |
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| 12. | Format | File format | |
| 13. | Identifier | Uniform Resource Identifier | https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/31742 |
| 14. | Identifier | Digital Object Identifier | 10.1558/equinox.31742 |
| 15. | Source | Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) | Equinox eBooks Publishing; Translocal Lives and Religion |
| 16. | Language | English=en | english |
| 18. | Coverage | Geo-spatial location, chronological period, research sample (gender, age, etc.) |
Scotland, 1884-1964 |
| 19. | Rights | Copyright and permissions | Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |