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The Enlightenment and religion : the myths of modernity / S.J. Barnett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barnett, S. J., 1960-
- Series:
- Manchester Religious Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church history--18th century.
- Church history.
- Enlightenment.
- Deism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 244 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
- Description based on print record.
- ISBN:
- 9786610734627
- 9781526137722
- 1526137720
- 9781847795939
- 1847795935
- 9781781700518
- 1781700516
- 9781280734625
- 1280734620
- 9781847790903
- 1847790909
- 9781423706656
- 142370665X
- OCLC:
- 60636933
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