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New approaches to religion and the Enlightenment /

New Approaches to Religion and the Enlightenment examines religious belief and practice during the age of Enlightenment from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including theology, the natural sciences, politics, the law, art, philosophy, and literature.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: McInelly, Brett C. (Editor), Kerry, Paul E. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Vancouver : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2018.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • New Approaches To Religion And The Enlightenment; Contents; Preface; Notes from Many Hands: Pierre Lyonnet's Redesign of Friedrich Christian Lesser's Insecto-Theology; An Apostate Maskil: The Effect of the Haskalah on Daniil Avraamovich Khvol'son; The Discourse of Civil Religion in M.M. Kheraskov's Numa Pompilius; George Whitefield, John Wesley, and the Rhetoric of Liberty; The Enlightenment in the Historical Imagination of Evangelical and Awakened Protestants in Europe, Britain, and North America, c. 1750-1850
  • Tale of the Comet: Enlightenment Discourse, the Salem Witch Trials, and the Undoing of Puritan Orthodoxy"The Glorious Liberty of the Children of God": Moral Agency and Human Liberty in Samuel Clarke's Newtonian Theology; Facing Forward, Looking Backward: Milton, Dryden, and the Politics of Biblical Interpretation; David Simple, Volume the Last, and Rational Christian Faith; Repentance or Regret: Isabella's Religion in The History of the Nun; The Mémoires of Jean Marteilhe, a Huguenot Galley Slave, in the Age of Enlightenment
  • "The Agreeable Contrast": British Caricatures of the 1745 Jacobite RebellionReligion and the Late German Enlightenment: Four New Translations of Schiller and Goethe; Managing Overseas Missions: The SPCK in the Scilly Islands, 1796-1819; Bibliography; Index; Contributors