UID:
almahu_9947382049902882
Format:
1 online resource (vii, 244 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-5261-3772-0
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1-84779-593-5
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1-78170-051-6
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1-280-73462-0
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9786610734627
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1-84779-090-9
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1-4237-0665-X
Series Statement:
Manchester Religious Studies
Content:
The Enlightenment and religion: The myths of modernity offers a critical survey of religious change and its causes in eighteenth-century Europe, and constitutes a radical challenge to the accepted views in traditional Enlightenment studies. Focusing on Enlightenment Italy, France and England, it illustrates how the canonical view of eighteenth-century religious change has in reality been constructed upon scant evidence and assumption, in particular the idea that the thought of the enlightened led to modernity.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Introduction: The Enlightenment and modernity -- 1. The myth of Enlightenment deism -- 2. Historians, religion and the historical record -- 3. The English deist movement: a case study in the construction of a myth -- 4. France: the revolt of democratic Christianity and the rise of public opinion -- 5. Italy: Roman 'tyranny' and radical Catholic opposition -- 6. The 'public sphere' and the hidden life of ideas -- Appendix: Indicative bibliography of Protestant thought on natural religion -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
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Also available in print form.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7190-6741-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7190-6740-5
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7765/9781526137722
