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The Secularization of Early Modern England - From Religious Culture to Religious Faith (Hardcover)
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The Secularization of Early Modern England - From Religious Culture to Religious Faith (Hardcover)
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Secularization is a subject of daunting size and is filled with
ambiguity. Through the use of insights gained from anthropology and
sociology, and by studying an earlier period than is usually
considered, this provocative work overcomes the usual obstacles to
exploring and explaining why various aspects of life--art,
language, work, play, technology, and power--became divorced from
religious values in early modern England. Sommerville helps modern
readers understand what life was like in an age in which society
was suffused with religion and was as basic to thought as the
structure of language. Concentrating not only on a decline of
religious belief, which is the last aspect of secularization, he
shows that a transformation of England's cultural grammar preceded
the loosening of belief, and that this was largely accomplished
between 1500 and 1700, much earlier than commonly believed.
Sommerville asserts that only when definitions of space and time
changed, and language and technology were transformed (as well as
art and play) could a secular world view be sustained.
Demonstrating that the process was more political and theological
than economic or social, Sommerville shows that as aspects of daily
life became divorced from religious values and controls, religious
culture was supplanted by religious faith--a reasoned, rather than
an unquestioned, belief in the supernatural. The first large-scale
treatment of the history of secularization, The Secularization of
Early Modern England will greatly interest students of history,
religion, sociology, anthropology, and literature.
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