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Enlightenment, Reawakening and Revolution, 1660-1815

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ISBN-10: 052181605X

ISBN-13: 9780521816052

Edition: 2006

Authors: Stewart J. Brown, Timothy Tackett

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During the tumultuous period of world history from 1660 to 1815, three complex movements combined to bring a fundamental cultural reorientation to Europe and North America, and ultimately to the wider world. The Enlightenment transformed views of nature and of the human capacity to master nature. The religious reawakenings brought a revival of heart-felt, experiential Christianity. Finally revolution, the political and social upheavals of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, challenged established ideas of divine-right monarchies and divinely ordained social hierarchies, and promoted more democratic government, notions of human rights and religious toleration. A new religious…    
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Book details

List price: $233.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/7/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 694
Size: 6.34" wide x 9.21" long x 1.77" tall
Weight: 2.684
Language: English

List of illustrations and maps
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Church, State, and Society in the European World, 1660-1780
Continental Catholic Europe
Continental Protestant Europe
Great Britain and Ireland
The church in economy and society
Christian Life in the European World, 1660-1780
The Catholic clergy in Europe
The Protestant clergies in the European world
Reaching audiences: Sermons and oratory in Europe
Christian education
Christianity and gender
Popular religion
Jewish-Christian relations
Architecture and Christianity
Movements and Challenges
Christianity and the rise of science, 1660-1815
The Enlightenment critique of Christianity
The Christian Enlightenment
Jansenism and the international suppression of the Jesuits
Evangelical awakenings in the North Atlantic world
Toleration and movements of Christian reunion, 1660-1789
Christian Developments in the Non-European World
Christianity in Iberian America
British and French North America to 1765
Christianity in Africa
Christianity in south and south-east Asia
Christianity in East Asia
Christian encounters with other world religions
Revolution and the Christian World
The American Revolution and religion, 1765-1815
Christianity and the campaign against slavery and the slave trade
The French Revolution and religion to 1794
The French Revolution and religion, 1795-1815
Movements of Christian awakening in revolutionary Europe, 1790-1815
Chronology
Bibliography
Index