Religion and Politics in Enlightenment Europe |
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| Editor:
| Bradley, James E.
Van Kley, Dale K. |
| Series title: | Erasmus Institute Bks. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-268-04051-2 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2001 |
| Publisher: | University of Notre Dame Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $125.00USD $125.00 |
Book Description:
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Religion and Politics in Enlightenment Europe, a collection of original essays from leading scholars, demonstrates that the collapse of the post-Reformation confessional state was more the result of religious dissent from within, much of it orthodox, than attacks of an anti-religious Enlightenment. In sharp contrast to the Reformation-era religious conflicts which tended to pit Protestant and Catholic confessions and states against each other, the eighteenth-century religious conflicts...
More DescriptionReligion and Politics in Enlightenment Europe, a collection of original essays from leading scholars, demonstrates that the collapse of the post-Reformation confessional state was more the result of religious dissent from within, much of it orthodox, than attacks of an anti-religious Enlightenment. In sharp contrast to the Reformation-era religious conflicts which tended to pit Protestant and Catholic confessions and states against each other, the eighteenth-century religious conflicts described in Religion and Politics in Enlightenment Europe took place within the various confessional establishments and states that founded and maintained them, such as Russian Orthodoxy in the East and the Anglican Establishment in England and Ireland.