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New Approaches to Religion and the Enlightenment

Edited by Brett C. McInelly and Paul E. Kerry

The Enlightenment, an eighteenth-century philosophical and cultural movement that swept through Western Europe, has often been characterized as a mostly secular phenomenon that ultimately undermined religious authority and belief, and eventually gave way to the secularization of Western society and to modernity. To whatever extent the Enlightenment can be credited with giving birth to modern Western culture, historians in more recent years have aptly demonstrated that the Enlightenment hardly singled the death knell of religion. Not only did religion continue to occupy a central pace in political, social, and private life throughout the eighteenth century, but it shaped the Enlightenment project itself in significant and meaningful ways. The thinkers and philosophers normally associated with the Enlightenment, to be sure, challenged state-sponsored church authority and what they perceived as superstitious forms of belief and practice, but they did not mount a campaign to undermine religion generally. A more productive approach to understanding religion in the age of Enlightenment, then, is to examine the ways the Enlightenment informed religious belief and practice during the period as well as the ways religion influenced the Enlightenment and to do so from a range of disciplinary perspectives, which is the goal of this collection. The chapters document the intersections of religious and Enlightenment ideas in such areas as theology, the natural sciences, politics, the law, art, philosophy, and literature.

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University Press Copublishing Division / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Pages: 414 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-68393-161-4 • Hardback • November 2018 • $147.00 • (£113.00)
978-1-68393-162-1 • eBook • November 2018 • $139.50 • (£108.00)
Subjects: Religion / Christianity / History, History / Modern / 18th Century, Religion / Philosophy
Brett C. McInelly is professor of English at Brigham Young University, where he specializes in eighteenth-century British literature and culture.

Paul E. Kerry is associate professor of history at Brigham Young University and a research fellow at the Voltaire Foundation and a visiting fellow in the Centre for Theology and Modern European Thought at the University of Oxford.

Preface

Notes from Many Hands: Pierre Lyonnet’s Redesign of Friedrich Christian Lesser’s Insecto-Theology

Kevin L. Cope

An Apostate Maskil: The Effect of the Haskalah on Daniil Avraamovich Khvol’son

Andrew C. Reed

The Discourse of Civil Religion in M. M. Kheraskov’s Numa Pompilius

Andreas Berg

George Whitefield, John Wesley, and the Rhetoric of Liberty

Glen O’Brien

The Enlightenment in the Historical Imagination of Evangelical and Awakened Protestants in Europe, Britain, and North America, c. 1750–1850

Andrew Kloes

Tale of the Comet: Enlightenment Discourse, the Salem Witch Trials, and the Undoing of Puritan Orthodoxy

Douglass Madison Furrh

“The Glorious Liberty of the Children of God”: Moral Agency and Human Liberty in Samuel Clarke’s Newtonian Theology

Jonathan D. Pike

Facing Forward, Looking Backward: Milton, Dryden, and the Politics of Biblical Interpretation

John J. Burke, Jr.

David Simple, Volume the Last, and Rational Christian Faith

Robin Runia

Repentance or Regret: Isabella’s Religion in The History of the Nun

Lisa Sikkink

The Mémoires of Jean Marteilhe, a Huguenot Galley Slave, in the Age of Enlightenment

Séverine Collignon-Ward

“The Agreeable Contrast”: British Caricatures of the 1745 Jacobite Revolution

Monika Renate Barget

Religion and the Late German Enlightenment: Four New Translations of Schiller and Goethe

Paul E. Kerry

Managing Overseas Missions: The SPCK in the Scilly Islands, 1796–1819

Bob Tennant

Bibliography

Index

Contributors

New Approaches to Religion and the Enlightenment

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  • The Enlightenment, an eighteenth-century philosophical and cultural movement that swept through Western Europe, has often been characterized as a mostly secular phenomenon that ultimately undermined religious authority and belief, and eventually gave way to the secularization of Western society and to modernity. To whatever extent the Enlightenment can be credited with giving birth to modern Western culture, historians in more recent years have aptly demonstrated that the Enlightenment hardly singled the death knell of religion. Not only did religion continue to occupy a central pace in political, social, and private life throughout the eighteenth century, but it shaped the Enlightenment project itself in significant and meaningful ways. The thinkers and philosophers normally associated with the Enlightenment, to be sure, challenged state-sponsored church authority and what they perceived as superstitious forms of belief and practice, but they did not mount a campaign to undermine religion generally. A more productive approach to understanding religion in the age of Enlightenment, then, is to examine the ways the Enlightenment informed religious belief and practice during the period as well as the ways religion influenced the Enlightenment and to do so from a range of disciplinary perspectives, which is the goal of this collection. The chapters document the intersections of religious and Enlightenment ideas in such areas as theology, the natural sciences, politics, the law, art, philosophy, and literature.

Details
Details
  • University Press Copublishing Division / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
    Pages: 414 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½
    978-1-68393-161-4 • Hardback • November 2018 • $147.00 • (£113.00)
    978-1-68393-162-1 • eBook • November 2018 • $139.50 • (£108.00)
    Subjects: Religion / Christianity / History, History / Modern / 18th Century, Religion / Philosophy
Author
Author
  • Brett C. McInelly is professor of English at Brigham Young University, where he specializes in eighteenth-century British literature and culture.

    Paul E. Kerry is associate professor of history at Brigham Young University and a research fellow at the Voltaire Foundation and a visiting fellow in the Centre for Theology and Modern European Thought at the University of Oxford.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Preface

    Notes from Many Hands: Pierre Lyonnet’s Redesign of Friedrich Christian Lesser’s Insecto-Theology

    Kevin L. Cope

    An Apostate Maskil: The Effect of the Haskalah on Daniil Avraamovich Khvol’son

    Andrew C. Reed

    The Discourse of Civil Religion in M. M. Kheraskov’s Numa Pompilius

    Andreas Berg

    George Whitefield, John Wesley, and the Rhetoric of Liberty

    Glen O’Brien

    The Enlightenment in the Historical Imagination of Evangelical and Awakened Protestants in Europe, Britain, and North America, c. 1750–1850

    Andrew Kloes

    Tale of the Comet: Enlightenment Discourse, the Salem Witch Trials, and the Undoing of Puritan Orthodoxy

    Douglass Madison Furrh

    “The Glorious Liberty of the Children of God”: Moral Agency and Human Liberty in Samuel Clarke’s Newtonian Theology

    Jonathan D. Pike

    Facing Forward, Looking Backward: Milton, Dryden, and the Politics of Biblical Interpretation

    John J. Burke, Jr.

    David Simple, Volume the Last, and Rational Christian Faith

    Robin Runia

    Repentance or Regret: Isabella’s Religion in The History of the Nun

    Lisa Sikkink

    The Mémoires of Jean Marteilhe, a Huguenot Galley Slave, in the Age of Enlightenment

    Séverine Collignon-Ward

    “The Agreeable Contrast”: British Caricatures of the 1745 Jacobite Revolution

    Monika Renate Barget

    Religion and the Late German Enlightenment: Four New Translations of Schiller and Goethe

    Paul E. Kerry

    Managing Overseas Missions: The SPCK in the Scilly Islands, 1796–1819

    Bob Tennant

    Bibliography

    Index

    Contributors

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