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New Approaches to Religion and the Enlightenment (Hardcover)
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New Approaches to Religion and the Enlightenment (Hardcover)
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The Enlightenment, an eighteenth-century philosophical and cultural
movement that swept through Western Europe, has often been
characterized as a mostly secular phenomenon that ultimately
undermined religious authority and belief, and eventually gave way
to the secularization of Western society and to modernity. To
whatever extent the Enlightenment can be credited with giving birth
to modern Western culture, historians in more recent years have
aptly demonstrated that the Enlightenment hardly singled the death
knell of religion. Not only did religion continue to occupy a
central pace in political, social, and private life throughout the
eighteenth century, but it shaped the Enlightenment project itself
in significant and meaningful ways. The thinkers and philosophers
normally associated with the Enlightenment, to be sure, challenged
state-sponsored church authority and what they perceived as
superstitious forms of belief and practice, but they did not mount
a campaign to undermine religion generally. A more productive
approach to understanding religion in the age of Enlightenment,
then, is to examine the ways the Enlightenment informed religious
belief and practice during the period as well as the ways religion
influenced the Enlightenment and to do so from a range of
disciplinary perspectives, which is the goal of this collection.
The chapters document the intersections of religious and
Enlightenment ideas in such areas as theology, the natural
sciences, politics, the law, art, philosophy, and literature.
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