Enlightenment and religion
The myths of modernity
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
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This book offers a critical survey of religious change and its causes in eighteenth-century Europe, and constitutes a 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 which 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.An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2004-01-29
- Mått138 x 215 x 14 mm
- Vikt304 g
- FormatHäftad
- SpråkEngelska
- Antal sidor256
- FörlagManchester University Press
- ISBN9780719067419
