The Enlightenment and religion by S Barnett
This title 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. For despite a lack of evidence, one of the fundamental assumptions of Enlightenment studies has been the assertion that there was a vibrant Deist movement that formed the intellectual solvent of the eighteenth century. The central claim of this book is that the immense ideological appeal of the traditional birth-of-modernity myth has meant that the actual lack of Deists has been glossed over, and a quite misleading historical view has become entrenched.
'This book makes an important case for rethinking the relationship between the Enlightenment and religionIt contributes to a new understanding of familiar material by treating it in an original and stimulating manner and will be valuable to both specialists and general readers.' Jane Shaw, New College, Oxford
S.J. Barnett is Subject Leader in History of Ideas, University of Kingston-Upon-Thames
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| ISBN 13 | 9780719067419 |
| ISBN 10 | 0719067413 |
| Title | The Enlightenment and religion |
| Author | S Barnett |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Year published | 2004-01-29 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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