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This title offers a critical survey of religious change and its causes in eighteenth-century Europe, and constitutes a radical 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 modernity. For despite a lack of evidence, one of the fundamental assumptions of Enlightenment studies has been the assertion that there was a vibrant Deist movement that formed the "intellectual solvent" of the eighteenth century. The central claim of this book is that the immense ideological appeal of the traditional birth-of-modernity myth has meant that the actual lack of Deists has been glossed over, and a quite misleading historical view has become entrenched. -
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date January 2004
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780719067419
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 30 USD
- Pages244
- ReadershipGeneral/trade
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions215 X 138 mm
- Reference CodeIPR1363
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