The Birth of Modern Belief : : Faith and Judgment from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment /

The Birth of Modern Belief : : Faith and Judgment from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment / / Ethan H. Shagan.

An illuminating history of how religious belief lost its uncontested status in the WestThis landmark book traces the history of belief in the Christian West from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, revealing for the first time how a distinctively modern category of belief came into being. Ethan Sh...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020
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Shagan, Ethan H.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019]
©2018
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (408 p.) :; 4 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Medieval Varieties of Believing
  • Chapter 2. The Reformation of Belief
  • Chapter 3. The Invention of the Unbeliever
  • Chapter 4. The Unbearable Weight of Believing
  • Chapter 5. The Birth Pangs of Modern Belief
  • Chapter 6. Enlightened Belief
  • Chapter 7. Belief in the Human
  • Conclusion
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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