| Religion Politics Europe Contributor(s): Bradley, James E. (Editor), Van Kley, Dale K. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0268040516 ISBN-13: 9780268040512 Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press OUR PRICE: $123.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2001 Annotation: Religion and Politics in Enlightenment Europe, a collection of original essays from leading scholars, demonstrates that the collapse of the post-Reformation confessional state was more the result of religious dissent from within, much of it orthodox, than attacks of an anti-religious Enlightenment. In sharp contrast to the Reformation-era religious conflicts which tended to pit Protestant and Catholic confessions and states against each other, the eighteenth-century religious conflicts described in Religion and Politics in Enlightenment Europe took place within the various confessional establishments and states that founded and maintained them, such as Russian Orthodoxy in the East and the Anglican Establishment in England and Ireland. In the course of its analysis, Religion and Politics in Enlightenment Europe destroys the notion of any kind of privileged relationship between "religion" and political or social "reaction." This book reveals the religious roots of modern ideas of individual rights and limitations on government, as well as the imperative of political order and the need for social hierarchy. It also shows the impossibility of any purely secular treatment of eighteenth-century European political history or institutions. Based on fresh, primary research as well as a synthesis of secondary sources, Religion and Politics in Enlightenment Europe turns the familiar eighteenth century of the textbooks upside down and inside out, challenging the dominant narratives of secularization and inevitable conclusion in the French Revolution. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | History - History | Europe - General - Political Science |
| Dewey: 274.07 |
| LCCN: 2001001938 |
| Series: Erasmus Institute Books |
| Physical Information: 1.24" H x 6.32" W x 9.22" (1.77 lbs) 424 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
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| Publisher Description: Religion and Politics in Enlightenment Europe, a collection of original essays from leading scholars, demonstrates that the collapse of the post-Reformation confessional state was more the result of religious dissent from within, much of it orthodox, than attacks of an anti-religious Enlightenment. In sharp contrast to the Reformation-era religious conflicts which tended to pit Protestant and Catholic confessions and states against each other, the eighteenth-century religious conflicts described in Religion and Politics in Enlightenment Europe took place within the various confessional establishments and states that founded and maintained them, such as Russian Orthodoxy in the East and the Anglican Establishment in England and Ireland. In the course of its analysis, Religion and Politics in Enlightenment Europe destroys the notion of any kind of privileged relationship between religion and political or social reaction. This book reveals the religious roots of modern ideas of individual rights and limitations on government, as well as the imperative of political order and the need for social hierarchy. It also shows the impossibility of any purely secular treatment of eighteenth-century European political history or institutions. Based on fresh, primary research as well as a synthesis of secondary sources, Religion and Politics in Enlightenment Europe turns the familiar eighteenth century of the textbooks upside down and inside out, challenging the dominant narratives of secularization and inevitable conclusion in the French Revolution. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bradley, James E.: - James E. Bradley is Geoffrey W. Bromiley Professor Emeritus of Church History at Fuller Theological Seminary.Van Kley, Dale K.: - Dale K. Van Kley is an emeritus professor of early modern European history at Ohio State University. |