The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society

by Brad S. Gregory

Book Overview

In a work that is as much about the present as the past, Brad Gregory identifies the unintended consequences of the Protestant Reformation and traces the way it shaped the modern condition over the course of the following five centuries. A hyperpluralism of religious and secular beliefs, an absence of any substantive common good, the triumph of capitalism and its driver, consumerism--all these, Gregory argues, were long-term effects of a movement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674088050
• ISBN13: 9780674088054
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"