Religion, secularization, and political thought
Subtitle: Thomas Hobbes to J.S. Mill
By: edited by James E. Crimmins.
Contributors: Crimmins, James E., 1953-; Huron College (London, Ont.)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1989
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: Religion -- History.; Secularism -- History.; Political science -- Great Britain -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-195) and index.
Collection of essays, the result of a series of seminars held at Huron College during the academic year 1987-1988.
Table of contents: title: The religious and the secular in the work of Thomas Hobbes / S.A. State; title: John Locke, Socinian or natural law theorist? / David Wootton; title: The religious, the secular, and the worldly / Roger L. Emerson; title: Science and secularization in Hume, Smith, and Bentham / Douglas G. Long; title: Edmund Burke and John Wesley / Frederick Dreyer; title: Religion, utility, and politics / James E. Crimmins; title: From God to man? / T.R. Sansom; title: J.S. Mill and the religion of humanity / Richard Vernon.