Philosophy and Religion in Enlightenment Britain: New Case Studies 0199227047, 9780199227044

These twelve new studies illustrate some of the techniques employed in intellectual history today. Exploring themes and

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Philosophy and Religion in Enlightenment Britain: New Case Studies
0199227047, 9780199227044

Much philosophical thinking about religion in the Anglophone world has been hampered by the constraints of Eurocentrism,

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The Enlightenment has been blamed for some of the most deadly developments of modern life: racism and white supremacy, i

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Taking a fresh and imaginative approach to the topic, Enlightenment Reformation investigates how and why Hutchinsonianis

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Taking as its focus the wide-ranging character of the Enlightenment, both in geographical and intellectual terms, this s

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With this edited collection, Solange Lefebvre and Lori G. Beaman bring together a series of case studies of religious gr

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The Enlightenment, an eighteenth-century philosophical and cultural movement that swept through Western Europe, has ofte

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Largely due to the cultural and political shift of the Enlightenment, Western societies in the eighteenth century emerge

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With this edited collection, Solange Lefebvre and Lori G. Beaman bring together a series of case studies of religious gr

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Taking as its focus the wide-ranging character of the Enlightenment, both in geographical and intellectual terms, this s

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How the philosophers and polemicists of eighteenth-century Britain used ridicule in the service of religious toleration,

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