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Formations of belief : historical approaches to religion and the secular /

This book offers a more nuanced understanding of the origins of secularist thought, demonstrating how Reformed Christianity and the Enlightenment were not the sole vessels of a worldview based on rationalism and individual autonomy.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies
Other Authors: Nord, Philip G., 1950- (Editor), Guenther, Katja (Editor), Weiss, Max, 1977- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2019.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Philip Nord
  • Past belief : the fall and rise of ecclesiastical history in early modern Europe / Anthony Grafton
  • Jacob Sasportas and Jewish Messianism / Yaacob Dweck
  • Doubt and unbelief in the early modern era : Diego Hurtado de Mendoza and the Spanish tradition / Stefania Pastore
  • Exeuntes de corpore qui sumus? "out of the body, who are we?" Augustine, the care of the dead, and a clash of representations / Peter Brown
  • In the church and at home: approaches to saints in colonial Mexico / Caterina Pizzigoni
  • An ordinary Soviet death : scientific atheism, socialist rituals, and life's final question / Victoria Smolkin
  • True believers in the modern Middle East / Max Weiss
  • The reformation era and the secularization of knowledge / Brad S. Gregory
  • Contesting secularization : the idea of a normative deficit of modernity after Max Weber / Peter E. Gordon
  • Religious minorities and the anxieties of an Islamic identity in Pakistan / Muhammad Qasim Zaman
  • Belief in science : on the neuroscience of religion / Katja Guenther.