The Enlightenment and Religion: The Myths of Modernity
S.J. Barnett- ISBN: 0719067413, 9780719067419
- Page count: 244
- Published: 2004-03-04
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
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- Author: S.J. Barnett
This title offers a critical survey of religious change and its causes in eighteenth-century Europe, and constitutes a radical challenge to the accepted views in traditional Enlightenment studies. Focusing on Enlightenment Italy, France and England, it illustrates how the canonical view of
eighteenth-century religious change has in reality been constructed upon scant evidence and assumption, in particular the idea that the thought of the enlightened led to modernity. For despite a lack of evidence, one of the fundamental assumptions of Enlightenment studies has been the assertion that
there was a vibrant Deist movement that formed the "intellectual solvent" of the eighteenth century. The central claim of this book is that the immense ideological appeal of the traditional birth-of-modernity myth has meant that the actual lack of Deists has been glossed over, and a quite misleading
historical view has become entrenched.
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