The Enlightenment and religion the myths of modernity /: the myths of modernity. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: S.J. Barnett.
• Authors: Barnett, S. J, 1960-
• Other Names: Manchester University Press, publisher.
• Contents: Preface: The Enlightenment and modernity -- The rationale of this book -- The structure of this book -- 1. The myth of Enlightenment deism The myth of the deist movement The deist myth and modern historians The myth and the historical record The myth and the construction of modernity Historians, religion and the historical record The origins of Enlightenment anticlericalism John Toland, Pierre Bayle and the problem of influence Enlightenment from within or without Christianity? The elite and the written record Scaremongering, public opinion and the construction of the deist scare -- 3. The English deist movement: a case study in the construction of a myth Post-restoration context. Deists and dissent confused John Toland and Christianity not mysterious Early modern politico-religious propagandists and modern historians Dissent and Enlightenment -- 4. France: the revolt of democratic Christianity and the rise of public opinion Bourbons, Huguenots and Jansenists The nouvelles ecclesiastiques and Bourbon miscalculation The revolt of the 1750s Popular victory against the Jesuits and the call for toleration The final decline of the absolutist dream -- 5. Italy: Roman 'tyranny' and radical Catholic opposition Jansenism and Catholic Enlightenment Anti-curial polemic and its context Regalism and Jansenism The temporal imperative: Roman theology and politics fused Radical Jansenism 1770s-1790s -- 6. The 'public sphere' and the hidden life of ideas The hidden life of ideas Public opinion and the top-down model of intellectual change Anachronism and toleration -- Appendix -- Indicative bibliography of Protestant thought on natural religion -- Selected bibliography.
• Publisher Details: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2003
• Extent: 1 online resource (vii, 244 pages)
• Subjects: 273.8; Enlightenment -- England; Enlightenment -- France; Enlightenment -- Italy; Deism -- History -- 18th century; Dissenters, Religious -- Europe -- 18th century; Anti-clericalism -- Europe -- History -- 18th century; Church history -- 18th century; Anti-clericalism; Church history; Deism; Dissenters, Religious; Enlightenment; Europe -- Church history -- 18th century; England; Europe; France; Italy; Church history; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526137722; 1526137720
• Related ISBNs: 9781847795939; 9780719067402; 9780719067419
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print record.
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