Civil Religion In The Early Modern Anglophone World 1550 1700

Author : Rachel Hammersley,Adam Morton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783277841

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Civil Religion in the Early Modern Anglophone World, 1550-1700 by Rachel Hammersley,Adam Morton Pdf

Civil Religion - a tradition of political thought that has argued for a close connection between religion and the state - made an important contribution to the development of religious and political thought at key moments of early modern British political and colonial history. As this volume shows, it was at work not just during the Enlightenment, but within a much wider periodical framework: the Reformation, the rise of the Puritan movement, the conflict over the Stuart state and church, the English Revolution, and the formation of key American colonies in the eighteenth century. Advocates of Civil Religion tried to reconcile a national church with religious toleration and design a constitution capable of preventing the church from interfering with affairs of state. The volume investigates the idea of Civil Religion in the works of canonical thinkers in the history of political thought (Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau), in the works of those who have been recognized as shaping political ideas (Hooker, Prynne et al.) during this period, and in the advocacy of those perhaps not previously associated with Civil Religion (William Penn). Although Civil Religion was often posited as a pragmatic solution to constitutional and ecclesiological problems created by the Reformation and the English Revolution, they also reveal that such pragmatism was not at odds with religious conviction or ideals. Civil Religion certainly enhanced citizenship in this period, but it did so in ways which depended on the truth claims of Protestantism, not on their domestication to politics.

Author : Charles John Sommerville
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : England
ISBN : 9780195074277

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The Secularization of Early Modern England by Charles John Sommerville Pdf

This study overcomes the ambiguity and daunting scale of the subject of secularization by using the insights of anthropology and sociology, and by examining an earlier period than usually considered. Concentrating not only on a decline of religious belief, which is the last aspect of secularization, this study shows that a transformation of England's cultural grammar had to precede that loosening of belief, and that this was largely accomplished between 1500 and 1700. 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. 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. Sommerville shows that this process was more political and theological than economic or social.

Author : David Cressy,Lori Anne Ferrell
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0415118484

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Religion and Society in Early Modern England by David Cressy,Lori Anne Ferrell Pdf

This is a thorough sourcebook covering the interplay between religion, politics, society and popular culture in the Tudor and Stuart periods. It covers the crucial topics of the Reformation through narratives, reports, and parliamentary proceedings.

Author : Michael J. Braddick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0521789559

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State Formation in Early Modern England, C.1550-1700 by Michael J. Braddick Pdf

This book examines the development of the English state during the long seventeenth century, emphasising the impersonal forces which shape the uses of political power, rather than the purposeful actions of individuals or groups. It is a study of state formation rather than of state building. The author's approach does not however rule out the possibility of discerning patterns in the development of the state, and a coherent account emerges which offers some alternative answers to relatively well-established questions. In particular, it is argued that the development of the state in this period was shaped in important ways by social interests - particularly those of class, gender and age. It is also argued that this period saw significant changes in the form and functioning of the state which were, in some sense, modernising. The book therefore offers a narrative of the development of the state in the aftermath of revisionism.

Author : Caroline Bowden,Emily Vine,Tessa Whitehouse
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526149220

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Religion and life cycles in early modern England by Caroline Bowden,Emily Vine,Tessa Whitehouse Pdf

Religion and life cycles in early modern England assembles scholars working in the fields of history, English literature and art history to further our understanding of the intersection between religion and the life course in the period c. 1550–1800. Featuring chapters on Catholic, Protestant and Jewish communities, it encourages cross-confessional comparison between life stages and rites of passage that were of religious significance to all faiths in early modern England. The book considers biological processes such as birth and death, aspects of the social life cycle including schooling, coming of age and marriage and understandings of religious transition points such as spiritual awakenings and conversion. Through this inclusive and interdisciplinary approach, it seeks to show that the life cycle was not something fixed or predetermined and that early modern individuals experienced multiple, overlapping life cycles.

Author : Peter Lake,Isaac Stephens
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783270149

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Scandal and Religious Identity in Early Stuart England by Peter Lake,Isaac Stephens Pdf

A window into the mental and cultural worlds of the Stuart period, capturing the existing religious, social and political tensions on the eve of the English Civil War.

Author : Mark Curran
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780861933167

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Atheism, Religion and Enlightenment in Pre-revolutionary Europe by Mark Curran Pdf

This book examines the reception of the works of the Baron d'Holbach throughout Francophone Europe. It insists that d'Holbach's historical importance has been understated, argues the case for the existence of a significant 'Christian Enlightenment', and much more.

Author : Clare Jackson
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0851159303

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Restoration Scotland, 1660-1690 by Clare Jackson Pdf

Amidst current interest in Scottish political and parliamentary history before 1707, this book emphasises the dynamic and characteristic cosmopolitanism of Restoration intellectual culture as revealed from a range of national, British and Continental perspectives."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Kathleen Lynch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191636417

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Protestant Autobiography in the Seventeenth-Century Anglophone World by Kathleen Lynch Pdf

Autobiographical narrative is seldom viewed as a catalyst for the social and political upheavals of mid-seventeenth-century England and its colonies. Protestant Autobiography in the Seventeenth-Century Anglophone World argues that it should be. Focusing on the inward search for signs of election as a powerful stimulus for new, written forms of self-identification, this study directs critical attention toward the collective processes through which 'truthful' texts of spiritual experience were constructed, validated, and endorsed. This new analysis of the rhetoric of authentic selfhood emphasizes the ways in which personal accounts of religious awakening became another opportunity to conceptualize experience as an authorizing principle. A broad spectrum of Protestant life-writing is explored, from Augustine's Confessions, first translated into English in 1620, through John Bunyan's Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666) and Richard Baxter's Reliquiae Baxterianae (1696). The forms in which these landmark texts were circulated and the interests that those circulations served are examined in such a way as to put canonical texts back into conversation with the outpouring of individual life writings that dates from the middle of the 17th century on. As the first new historicized account of the seventeenth-century Protestant conversion narrative in a generation, Protestant Autobiography in the Seventeenth-Century Anglophone World contributes to the reintegration of the scholarly fields of literature, religion, and politics. It revitalizes the study of proto-literary forms which, while devotional in nature, were deeply political in their consequences, contributing as they did to the emerging discourse of personal liberties.

Author : Chris R. Langley
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783275304

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The National Covenant in Scotland, 1638-1689 by Chris R. Langley Pdf

What did it mean to be a Covenanter?

Author : David Hayton
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1843830582

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Ruling Ireland, 1685-1742 by David Hayton Pdf

Essays offer a chronological survey of the development of English policy towards Ireland in the late 17th - early 18th century. In a series of studies, David Hayton offers a comprehensive account of the government of Ireland during the period of transformation from "New English" colonialism to Anglo-Irish "patriotism", providing a chronological survey of the development of English policy towards Ireland and an account of the changing political structure of Ireland; particular attention is paid to the emergence of an English-style party system under Queen Anne. The Anglo-Irish dimension is also explored, through crises of high politics, and through an examination of the role played by Irish issues at Westminster. In his introduction Professor Hayton provides historical perspective, and establishes Irish political developments firmly in their British context. Professor D.W. HAYTON is Reader in Modern History at Queen's University, Belfast.

Author : Spalding Gentlemen's Society
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780901503879

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The Correspondence of the Spalding Gentlemen's Society, 1710-1761 by Spalding Gentlemen's Society Pdf

Annotated edition of erudite letters from the eighteenth-century sheds light on intellectual life at the time.

Author : Toby Christopher Barnard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 019820857X

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Cromwellian Ireland by Toby Christopher Barnard Pdf

In this important study, reissued here in paperback along with a new historiographical essay, T.C. Barnard anatomizes the Irish problem of the mid-seventeenth century and connects it to the English politics and policies both before and after the interregnum. He looks closely at how and by whom Ireland was ruled and how its government was financed, and he explores in detail the primary Cromwellian goals in Ireland: propagating the Protestant gospel, providing English and Protestant education, advancing learning, and reforming the law.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : William Carey Library
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Christian sects
ISBN : 9780878086085

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World Christian Trends Ad30-ad2200 (hb) by Anonim Pdf

Author : William H. Swatos,Daniel V. A. Olson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0742507610

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The Secularization Debate by William H. Swatos,Daniel V. A. Olson Pdf

Introduced to social scientific audiences by Max Weber, the concept of secularization has had a major influence on the way in which religion has been understood in the West. But at least since the late 1980s both the predictive and the descriptive adequacy of this concept have been seriously challenged. In the face of this challenge, The Secularization Debate offers a timely summary of the critical issues that have arisen over the past decade. With its wide range of essays by prominent international scholars, The Secularization Debate is sure to become a pivotal volume for anyone interested in the hotly contested concept of secularization and its continued relevance to the study of religion.