S. Barnett

The Enlightenment and religion

The myths of modernity

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9780719067419
• ISBN-10: 0719067413
• Artikelnr.: 22167376

Autorenporträt

S.J. Barnett is Subject Leader in History of Ideas, University of Kingston-Upon-Thames

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: The Enlightenment and modernity The rationale of this book The
structure of this book 1. The myth of Enlightenment deism The myth of the
deist movement The deist myth and modern historians The myth and the
historical record The myth and the construction of modernity Historians,
religion and the historical record The origins of Enlightenment
anticlericalism John Toland, Pierre Bayle and the problem of influence
Enlightenment from within or without Christianity? The elite and the
written record Scaremongering, public opinion and the construction of the
deist scare 3. The English deist movement: a case study in the construction
of a myth Post-restoration context. Deists and dissent confused John Toland
and Christianity not mysterious Early modern politico-religious
propagandists and modern historians Dissent and Enlightenment 4. France:
the revolt of democratic Christianity and the rise of public opinion
Bourbons, Huguenots and Jansenists The nouvelles ecclesiastiques and
Bourbon miscalculation The revolt of the 1750s Popular victory against the
Jesuits and the call for toleration The final decline of the absolutist
dream 5. Italy: Roman 'tyranny' and radical Catholic opposition Jansenism
and Catholic Enlightenment Anti-curial polemic and its context Regalism and
Jansenism The temporal imperative: Roman theology and politics fused
Radical Jansenism 1770s-1790s 6. The 'public sphere' and the hidden life of
ideas The hidden life of ideas Public opinion and the top-down model of
intellectual change Anachronism and toleration Appendix - Indicative
bibliography of Protestant thought on natural religion Selected
bibliography