The Enlightenment and religion : : the myths of modernity / / S.J. Barnett.
The Enlightenment and religion: The myths of modernity offers a critical survey of religious change and its causes in eighteenth-century Europe, and constitutes a radical challenge to the accepted views in traditional Enlightenment studies. Focusing on Enlightenment Italy, France and England, it ill...
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| Year of Publication: | 2003 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Manchester Religious Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 244 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The Enlightenment and modernity
- 1. The myth of Enlightenment deism
- 2. Historians, religion and the historical record
- 3. The English deist movement: a case study in the construction of a myth
- 4. France: the revolt of democratic Christianity and the rise of public opinion
- 5. Italy: Roman 'tyranny' and radical Catholic opposition
- 6. The 'public sphere' and the hidden life of ideas
- Appendix: Indicative bibliography of Protestant thought on natural religion
- Selected bibliography
- Index.