The Enlightenment and Religion: The Myths of Modernity

by S.J. Barnett and University of Kingston-Upon-Thames S.J. Barnett is Subject Leader in History of Ideas

Book Overview

This book offers a critical survey of religious change and its causes in eighteenth-century Europe, and constitutes a 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719067413
• ISBN13: 9780719067419
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"