Anglican enlightenment: orientalism, religion and politics in England and its empire, 1648-1715

"An original interpretation of the early European Enlightenment and the religious conflicts that rocked England and its empire under the later Stuarts. In a series of vignettes that move between Europe and North Africa, William Bulman shows that this period witnessed not a struggle for and agai...

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1. Verfasser: Bulman, William J. 1979- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge Univ. Press 2015
Ausgabe:1. publ.
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge studies in early modern history
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Zusammenfassung:"An original interpretation of the early European Enlightenment and the religious conflicts that rocked England and its empire under the later Stuarts. In a series of vignettes that move between Europe and North Africa, William Bulman shows that this period witnessed not a struggle for and against new ideas and greater freedoms, but a battle between several novel schemes for civil peace. Bulman considers anew the most apparently conservative force in post- Civil War English history: the conformist leadership of the Church of England. He demonstrates that the Church's historical scholarship, social science, pastoral care, and political practice amounted not to a culturally-backward spectacle of intolerance, but to a campaign for stability drawn from the frontiers of erudition and globalisation. In seeking to sever the link between zeal and chaos, the church and its enemies were thus united in an Enlightenment project, but bitterly divided over what it meant in practice"--
Beschreibung:Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Includes bibliographical references and index
Machine generated contents note: Introduction: from learning to liberalism?; Part I. Foundations: 1. Literature and violence; 2. Empires, churches and republics of the globe; Part II. Culture: 3. Histories; 4. Universals; Part III. Religion: 5. The propagation of the faith; 6. The worship of God; Part IV. Politics: 7. Restoration; 8. Revolution; Conclusion: from pastor to spectator
Beschreibung:XIX, 340 S. Ill.
ISBN:9781107073685
9781107423282

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