Moral Purity and Persecution in History / / Barrington Moore.

The intellectual scope and courage to contend with the largest puzzles of human existence and organization distinguish great social thinkers. Barrington Moore's Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy was a foundational work of historical sociology that influenced a generation of social sc...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©2000
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • CHAPTER 1 Moral Purity and Impurity in the Old Testament
  • CHAPTER 2 Purity in the Religious Conflicts of Sixteenth-Century France
  • CHAPTER 3 Purity as a Revolutionary Concept in the French Revolution
  • CHAPTER 4 Notes on Purity and Pollution in Asiatic Civilizations
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index