Umfang:
1 online resource (253 pages)
ISBN:
9781847790903
Inhalt:
This publication offers a critical survey of religious change and its causes in 18th-century Europe. Focusing on Enlightenment Italy, France and England, the text illustrates how the canonical view of 18th-century religious change has in reality been constructed upon scant evidence and assumption.
Inhalt:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 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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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780719067402
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780719067402
Sprache:
Englisch
