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Discourse on civility and barbarity : a critical history of religion and related categories / Timothy Fitzgerald.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fitzgerald, Timothy, 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion--Philosophy.
- Religion.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (367 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is an analysis of the development of different meanings of the term 'religion' in different contexts and in relation to other categories with shifting and unstable nuances such as the state, politics, economics, and the secular.
- Contents:
- Methodology 1: the critical study of religion
- Methodology 2: religion and secular, sacred and profane
- On civility and barbarity
- Luther, Calvin, and Henry VIII's Formularies of faith
- English historical documents, 1485-1558
- Samuel Purchas, his pilgrimage
- English historical documents, 1660-1832
- Religion, state, and American constitutionalism
- Postscript on civility and barbarity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-335) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-029364-0
- 1-4356-2003-8
- 1-281-16279-5
- 0-19-804103-9
- 9786611162795
- 0-19-530009-2
- OCLC:
- 659561307
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